Overview

This manual describes how to install and configure Micro Focus COBOL Analyzer (CA), a suite of software products for analyzing and modernizing legacy applications.

COBOL Analyzer provides insight into the technical reality of complex application portfolios, including

• Tools for application and program level understanding, utilizing extensive metrics, reports, diagrammatic views and querying tools to support myriad of business initiatives.
• Quality Assessment with standard code quality queries to serve as a guidance to a code quality practice in both development and maintenance phases.
• Portability Assessment to help you generate various HTML reports to identify points of interest for migrations.
• In depth analysis tools to promote efficiency in the performance of daily tasks such as field changes, understanding of data propagation through a program, and dead code removal.

Business Rule Manager mines business logic from program code and encapsulates the logic in business rules.

While all products are installed with COBOL Analyzer, each product is licensed separately.

CA can be deployed in a multi-user environment or single users with a local database. The multi-user environment gives users access to a common repository of application objects. Repository setup is the responsibility of a master user, leaving team members free to focus on their tasks. The database for the repository is assumed to be the customer's own.

CA installations consist of the following components:

• The CA Server which hosts CA workspace files and related support files.
• CA Clients which host the link files used to connect to workspaces on the server.
• For single user setups, the CA software is installed on the developer's machine and includes an option to install a local database.

This manual also describes how to install and configure the database client used to connect to repositories, for sites at which the database client is not already installed. If you store repositories in Oracle or DB2, a database client must be installed wherever the CA client or CA server is installed.