Viewing Executive Reports

Executive Reports offer HTML views of application inventories that a manager can use to assess the risks and costs of supporting the application:

• The Application Summary view gives statistics for industry-standard metrics such as program volume, maintainability, cyclomatic complexity, and number of defects.
• The Potential Code Anomalies view gives statistics for potential code anomalies that may mark programs as candidates for re-engineering: GOTO non-exits, range overlaps, and the like. You can customize potential code anomalies using the Define Anomalies feature. To get potential code anomalies to appear on the report, select the Code Defects option on the Options > Project Options > Reports > Executive Report tab.
  Note: You must set Detect Potential Code Anomalies in the Verification > Settings tab of the Workspace Options window to generate these statistics.
• The Repository Statistics view gives statistics for Enterprise Analyzer verification results and unresolved or unreferenced application elements.
• The Standard Deviations view displays graphs that plot the deviation of the programs in the application from the means for six key industry-standard metrics.

To generate an Executive Report, choose Prepare > Executive Report. Project options on the Report > Executive Report tab determine the entities included in the report, and the functions the report performs. The report is stored in \<Workspace Home>\Output\Executive Report\Project\index.htm.

The figure below shows an Executive Report. The top page in each view displays the available statistics and graphs. Click the links to view the detail for each type of statistic or graph. In the statistic or graph detail page, click the link for a program to view the detail for that program.