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Overview of DevEnterprise

DevEnterprise includes the following components:

  • Metadata Analyzer, which does the following:
    • Analyzes all your batch, CICS, DB2, COBOL, PL/I and Assembler applications, allows you to query against that collected metadata.
    • Provides impact analysis, identifying related associated artifacts from a given resource.
    • Allows your programming staff to quickly see the relationships across programs, identifying both the source and destination of critical data fields.
    • Allows your programming staff to assess the effort associated with changes by clearly identifying even the most subtle connections.
    • Improves the quality of your applications by giving you the information necessary to quickly identify and assess cause and effect across mainframe artifacts like fields within record layouts, MVS files, IMS and CICS transactions, production jobs, and DB2 tables.
  • Program Analyzer, which does the following:
    • Provides a program's logic flow in both chart and diagram format with intuitive highlighting, giving you a quick grasp of how the program works.
    • Allows you to analyze and navigate through a COBOL program to see to specific paragraphs, divisions, and sections.
    • Identifies dead code within a program.
    • Analyzes the flow of data across variables throughout the program, allowing you to quickly locate the source of bad data.

Conventions

The conventions used for this space specifies that the names of menus, buttons, and other items that we enter or press in a DevEnterprise window needs to get printed in bold-faced type.

DevEnterprise publications

An RFN order e-mail includes a link to the BMC Compuware Installer Mainframe Products SMP/E Installation Guide, which should be used to perform the installation of DevEnterprise. Preparation for installation and post-installation configuration should be done according to this space.

An RFN order e-mail includes a link to the BMC Compuware Installer Mainframe Products SMP/E Installation Guide, which should be used for the SMP/E installation of Enterprise Common Components (ECC). ECC

includes the mainframe component of DevEnterprise. Preparation for installation and post-installation configuration for the DevEnterprise components should be done according to the DevEnterprise Mainframe Installation and Configuration Guide.

DevEnterprise publications are also available to users in a variety of formats like:

Book

The following spaces are available on the BMC Support Center for DevEnterprise:

  • Mainframe Installation and Configuration Guide: Provides step-by-step instructions for preparing for installation of the mainframe portion of DevEnterprise on the MVS host, as well as post-installation configuration.
  • Distributed License Management Installation Guide: Explains how to set up a license to use the workstation portion of DevEnterprise.
  • Enterprise Common Component Installation and Configuration Guide: Provides information about how to install, customize, and maintain Enterprise Common Components.

Spaces can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. To learn more about Adobe Acrobat Reader or to download this free viewing companion to Adobe Acrobat from the World Wide Web, go to http://www.adobe.com.

Help

The following help is available for DevEnterprise:

  • Release Notes, which give highlights about new product features, and list system requirements, technical notes, and known issues are available on the BMC Support Center.

  • Step-by-step instructions for installing the workstation portion of DevEnterprise are available from product browser.
  • The Setting Up DevEnterprise help is for verifying the installation and performing the one-time setup of components.
  • The Comprehensive Help is global help covering all components of DevEnterprise. This help has an all-inclusive index and search capability across the help of all DevEnterprise components, and provides links to the help for commonly performed tasks.
  • A component’s help (index, table of contents, and search capabilities) is available from the Help menu of any window within that component.
  • Dialog box help is available by clicking the Help button on a dialog box.

 

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