What is a Picture Worth? Using Visualizations to Understand Your Applications

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What is a Picture Worth?Using Visualizations to Understand Your Applications

Jim Liebert, Product ManagerMark Schettenhelm, Product ManagerMay 21, 2015

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Mark SchettenhelmProduct Manager

Jim LiebertProduct Manager

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Have you ever tried to build a piece of furniture?

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It’s difficult without understanding how the parts fit together

Would a picture help?

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 ***************************************************************** * EDIT THE OPERATOR ENTERED MENU SELECTION * ***************************************************************** PERFORM P03300-EDIT-SELECTION THRU P03300-EDIT-SELECTION-EXIT. IF ERROR-FOUND GO TO P03100-EDIT-SCREEN-EXIT. ***************************************************************** * IF NO ERRORS -- DETERMINE NEXT PROGRAM TO SCHEDULE BASED * * ON THE MENU SELECTION * ***************************************************************** IF SELECTION-IS-DATA-REFRESH IF PC-CONFIRM = '7' MOVE 'PDA013' TO PC-NEXT-PGRMID ELSE MOVE '7' TO PC-CONFIRM MOVE -1 TO MENUSELL MOVE SPACES TO MENUSELO MOVE PM036-CONFIRM-REFRESH TO PDAMSGO END-IF GO TO P03100-EDIT-SCREEN-EXIT END-IF. MOVE SPACES TO PC-CONFIRM. IF SELECTION-IS-USER-ID-UTILITY PERFORM P04000-USERID-UTIL THRU P04000-USERID-UTIL-EXIT. IF SELECTION-IS-SCENARIO-SELECT MOVE 'PDA024' TO PC-NEXT-PGRMID PERFORM P80300-XFER-CONTROL THRU P80300-XFER-CONTROL-EXIT. P03100-EDIT-SCREEN-EXIT. EXIT. EJECT

The same is true for mainframe programs and data.

Would a picture help you understand this?

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70% of CIOs are concerned that lack of mainframe documentation will hinder knowledge transfer and create risk2015 Vanson Bourne CIO Survey

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As a programmer or analyst, you need to

Produce:• Change estimates

• Change specifications

Produce them:• Quickly

• Accurately

Then…• Change code

• Minimize increases in complexity

• Ensure that changes work

• Improve quality

But you are unfamiliar with the code and the platform!

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75% of CIOs admitted that their distributed application developers have little understanding of the mainframe2015 Vanson Bourne CIO Survey

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Digital Economy Requirements • Increased innovation velocity

and optimized performance

• Mobile, analytics, social, cloudand Internet of Things driving increased mainframe demand

• Meet “Age of the Customer” expectations

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But the Workforce is Changing• New workers are bringing new

expectations

• Shorter development cycles for continuous delivery

• Need to safeguard the business logic coded into your applications

Digital Economy Requirements • Increased innovation velocity

and optimized performance

• Mobile, analytics, social, cloud and Internet of Things driving increased mainframe demand

• Meet “Age of the Customer” expectations

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39% of CIOs have no explicit plans for addressing mainframe developer shortages

2015 Vanson Bourne CIO Survey

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What Does a Solution Need to Provide?

Application Understanding• Visualize your application portfolio

and how it’s utilized

• Understand application logic, data and relationships

Elegant Simplicity in Design and Usability• Empower emerging workforce through

collaboration and communication

• Enable collaboration across platforms and across Dev and Ops

Enable mainframe agility without compromising the virtues of the platform

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Introducing Topaz

Program Analysis• Understand complex and

unfamiliar programs faster

Enterprise Data• Discover, visualize and work

with both mainframe and non-mainframe data in a common, intuitive manner

Modern Interface• IDE for essential mainframe

software development activities

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TOPAZ PROGRAM ANALYSISDemo

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Benefits of Program Analysis

• Understand complex and unfamiliar programs faster

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Benefits of Program Analysis

• Understand complex and unfamiliar programs faster

• Improve application quality and speed of delivery

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Benefits of Program Analysis

• Understand complex and unfamiliar programs faster

• Improve application quality and speed of delivery

• Maintain unfamiliar code with confidence

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Benefits of Program Analysis

• Understand complex and unfamiliar programs faster

• Improve application quality and speed of delivery

• Maintain unfamiliar code with confidence

• Transition next-generation to unfamiliar platform and programs

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TOPAZ ENTERPRISE DATADemo

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Benefits of Enterprise Data

• Understand complex data relationships

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Benefits of Enterprise Data

• Understand complex data relationships

• Improve test data quality and speed of delivery

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Benefits of Enterprise Data

• Understand complex data relationships

• Improve test data quality and speed of delivery

• Create test datawith confidence

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Benefits of Enterprise Data

• Understand complex data relationships

• Improve test data quality and speed of delivery

• Create test datawith confidence

• Transition next-generation to unfamiliar platform and data

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Success! The Finished Product

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QUESTIONS

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