Combined with the capabilities already provided by this year’s three previous Topaz releases—including cross-platform data visualization and editing, static COBOL and PL/I code visualization, and Java-on-mainframe performance management—this ground-breaking release removes impediments that have historically prevented enterprises from reaping the full potential value of their mainframe applications, data and hardware.
These impediments include:
- Declining in-house mainframe programming expertise and experience
- Inadequate documentation of mainframe applications
- Uncertain reliability of available source code
- Slow change management processes that depend excessively on manual program analysis and/or idiosyncratic knowledge of key SMEs
- The high business risk associated with making changes in an environment of complex and inadequately understood dependencies/impacts
- Poor collaboration between mainframe and non-mainframe developers
These impediments are becoming particularly problematic as mainframe applications are increasingly called upon to support the mobile customer experience and other essential aspects of digital business.
“In a business environment that demands we constantly update our application code to address relentlessly changing market realities, it is imperative for our mainframe environment to be as agile as our other platforms,” said Mr. Roberto Schmid, Service Manager Corporate IT Operations at Helvetia Insurance. “Compuware is enabling us achieve that agility by delivering solutions that help bring contemporary DevOps best practices to the mainframe, so we can fully leverage the value of our mainframe application portfolio—as well as the platform’s compelling performance, reliability, scalability, security and workload economics.”
“Mainframes have long been the platform of choice for enterprise systems of record, and today they are the backbone for many modern digital applications,” said Jason Bloomberg, president of digital transformation analyst firm Intellyx. “Compuware’s commitment to supporting current as well as the next generation of mainframe professionals with easy to use, innovative tools is of great service to enterprise customers who recognize the mainframe as the modern, digital platform it will continue to be for years to come.”
Read the entire article at http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/10/01/772566/10151186/en/Compuware-s-Innovative-Topaz-TM-Runtime-Visualizer-Revolutionizes-Mainframe-DevOps-With-Fast-Graphical-Mapping-of-Program-to-Program-Calls.html
