OVERVIEW

Applications coded in Natural, a fourth-generation (4GL) programming language, or ADABAS (Adaptable Database System) often run critical business operations. They are becoming difficult to maintain due to lack of available skilled people, and increasingly expensive to support in terms of licensing and mainframe costs. As technologies and customer demands change, applications are often stretched beyond their functional limits. The maintenance on legacy applications over time has made them so complex that rather than helping to solve business problems, most legacy applications have become a risk and a challenge.

ASG-becubic is a unique tool that helps organizations recognize and understand Natural and ADABAS Applications.

ASG-becubic provides the foundation for optimizing the business value of your Natural and ADABAS Applications. Through its advanced application discovery and understanding capabilities, it presents an end-to-end view of your applications. While ASG-becubic recognizes a wide range of application components and maintains a current knowledge base through high performance source code collectors, it is unique in scanning and documenting Natural and ADABAS Applications.

FOR DISCOVERY AND UNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL AND ADABAS APPLICATIONS

SOLUTION SHEET

ASG-becubicfor ADABAS / Natural

“We used ASG-becubic to scan 29,354 NATURAL objects and were able to document application flow and eliminate a manual process for over 50 complex applications, which reduced our analysis time by more than 90 percent.” - Maintenance Programming Manager from major financial service company

BENEFITS

Starting from a Natural PGM, shows the paragraphs in which ADABAS DB access occurs, also the logical tables and Data Items that are accessed by these instructions, in Network Layout.

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A recognized innovator in enterprise IT software solutions, ASG Software Solutions has been optimizing 85 percent of the world’s most complex IT organizations for over 25 years. We create and deploy unique software solutions that reduce cost, mitigate risk and improve service delivery throughout the IT lifecycle. ASG’s comprehensive solutions help you solve today’s challenges, such as Cloud Computing and big data, while driving your business forward by providing insight and control across Cloud, distributed and mainframe environments.

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A recognized innovator in enterprise IT software solutions, ASG Software Solutions has been optimizing 85 percent of the world’s most complex IT organizations for more than 25 years. We create and deploy unique software solutions that reduce cost, mitigate risk and improve service delivery throughout the IT lifecycle. ASG’s comprehensive solutions help you solve today’s challenges, such as Cloud Computing and big data, while driving your business forward by providing insight and control across Cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. ASG is a privately held global company based in Naples, Florida, with more than 70 o�ces worldwide.

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ASG-becubic also helps you to effectively meet the challenge of legacy modernization, and better understand where time and money should best be spent to align your applications portfolio with your business objectives.

Business Benefits

Enables Application Decision-Making

Inventories, evaluates and measures your supporting current custom applications

Help recognize potential candidates for application replacement, retirement, outsourcing and repairing

Business Agility

Helps prioritize applications that the business depends on and values

Helps identify which applications are using obsolete technologies

Demographics and Technology Changes

Helps in addressing concerns regarding diminishing product support and legacy knowledge becoming less available

Helps measure complexity of custom applications and databases that are difficult to understand

Risk and Quality

Allows you make changes with minimal disruption and risk

Monitor and identify legacy code and application quality and health

ASG-becubic supports more than 100 technologies from the domains of mainframe and distributed architectures, including:

A broad range of mainframe languages including Natural, CA-IDMS/DC, COBOL, PL/1, Assembler, FORTRAN, JCL, CICS, Mantis, and DELINK.

A number of distributed languages and technologies including Windows, Java, JEE packaging, Hibernate, Spring Beans, Struts/Tiles, iBatis, WSDL, XML, XSLT, VB, VB.Net, C#, ASP, ASP.Net, and MQSeries.

An expansive range of databases including ADABAS, Oracle SQL, MS SQL, DB2, CA-Datacom, Teradata, and IMS/DB.

A number of scheduling tools including CA-7, Control-M, TNG, TWS, Cron, ASG-Cortex, ASG-Zena, and ASG-Zeke.

Extensive support of the mid-range AS/400 ecosystem including RPG, COBOL, and DB2 on AS/400.

Several SCM tools including CA-Librarian, Changeman, ASG-LCM, Visual SourceSafe, Team Foundation Server, Borland StarTeam, Rational ClearCase, Dimensions CM, CVS, and SVN.

With easy-to-use cross references, impact analysis, and graphical results, ASG-becubic empowers you to unlock the potential of your portfolio and resolve significant business issues even while programming resources dwindle through retirement and attrition.