ARCAD Observer

IBM i Application Analysis

Gain a rapid understanding of IBM i application architecture. Boost productivity and accuracy in software modernization & maintenance. ARCAD Observer combines powerful application navigation and diagramming with multi-platform ‘where-used’ and documentation generation.

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Need to rapidly get developers up-to-speed on your IBM i applications?

Analyze and document them automatically with ARCAD-Observer

Use ARCAD Observer to…

Kick-start your modernization project

ARCAD Observer gives you instant insights into the architecture and business rules in your existing application.

Accelerate your application maintenance

ARCAD Observer helps DevOps teams make accurate changes faster, identifying each field and source line impacted by a code change.

Accelerate the understanding of your application

Direct output into
Atlassian Confluence

Generate technical documentation, giving readers a clear understanding of IBM i application architecture without needing to read the source code itself

Diagrams

Observe and analyze your programs via I/O diagrams, workflow diagrams, database relationship models and program/procedure calling chains

Macroscopic views

Observe and analyze a high-level, functional view of your application architecture

Where-used

Obtain detailed dependency information about your application, to the source line and field level

Database analysis

Discover database relationships in diagram form

List manager

Manage application artifacts in groups

Documentation

Generate technical documentation that is guaranteed up-to-date

RDi and VS Code

Use ARCAD Observer from the tool of your choice – ARCAD provides both RDi plugins and VS Code extensions

LPEX-ready

Application-wide IBM i cross-referencing from within the LPEX editor

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We decided on ARCAD primarily because their solutions delivered exactly against IPECA’s transformational requirements in an integrated and modular way. ARCAD-Observer helps accelerate our teams’ application understanding through graphical visualization of architecture, business logic and all application dependencies down to the source line and field level.

Jérémie Mestraletti, Head of research at IPECA

With ARCAD for DevOps, we have automated an enterprise-grade CI/CD pipeline for RPG based on Git and Jenkins and massively improved our responsiveness to user demands.

Elliot Avison, Dancerace CEO

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