Understanding Your IBM i Legacy to Support Modernization

It’s difficult to decide how to evolve an application when its logic, dependencies, and operation are no longer fully understood…

IBM i applications have often evolved over many years, in response to changing business needs, successive developments, and team changes. Over time, knowledge can become scattered, documentation may become incomplete or obsolete, and certain dependencies may become difficult to identify.

This loss of visibility complicates decision-making. How can you measure the impact of a change, identify the affected components, or understand an existing business rule?

In this webinar, discover how DISCOVER enables you to:

  • Perform automated functional mapping of your applications by generating a complete tree structure and visualizing the links between programs, files, modules, and functional domains,
  • Ensure the retro-documentation of your applications by formalizing business rules and functional knowledge in the form of text and diagrams,
  • Analyze databases by identifying relationships between tables, physical and logical files, and then generating the corresponding diagrams,
  • Explore application architecture using interactive diagrams and 3D representations,
  • Graphically compare different versions of the same program to identify changes and analyze their impact.
  • Track a value or variable end to end, from its origin through its transformations and different uses within the application.

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Speaker

Alan Ashley

Alan Ashley

Solution Architect, ARCAD Software

Alan has been in support and promotion of the IBM i platform for over 30 years and is the Presales Consultant for DevOps on IBM i role with ARCAD Software. Prior to joining ARCAD Software, he spent many years in multiple roles within IBM from supporting customers through HA to DR to Application promotion to migrations of the IBM i to the cloud. In those roles, he saw first hand the pains many have with Application Lifecycle Management, modernization, and data protection. His passion in those areas fits right in with the ARCAD suite of products.