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ASG-Alliance
for Understanding Applications

ASG-Alliance is the application-understanding component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench (ESW), an integrated life cycle solution for managing your existing systems. Alliance uses the Analytical Engine™ to populate the Application Knowledge Repository (AKR), revealing a wealth of information about your organization's applications. Alliance can help your organization increase its understanding of applications and define project plans for mainframe applications.

Product Features
  • Identifies data items that are related through redefines or assignment statements (synonyms)  
  • Provides attribute data about any data item in the application  
  • Identifies copybooks and local definitions of the same data item (homonyms)  
  • Enables search of any information stored in the AKR  
  • Facilitates rapid identification and content review of usage locations  
  • Searches at the program or application level  
  • Reports unused (dead) and discovered (undefined) components of the application
  • Provides the option of capturing actions into scripts and replaying them  
  • Allows captured scripts to be modified for specific reuse

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