Year 2000 Wire/Sterling Software Releases New 16-Bit Vision:Inspect 6.0 for Fast, Graphical Analysis of Cobol with Added Support for PL/1.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997-- Enhanced Tool Tracks Date Fields Systemwide for Year 2000 Projects Sterling Software Inc.'s (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SSW SSW abbr. south-southwest Noun 1. SSW - the compass point midway between south and southwest sou'-sou'-west, south southwest ) Information Management Division Monday announced the release of VISION:Inspect 6.0, its Microsoft Windows-based analysis tool for Cobol applications. Also announced was a VISION:Inspect add-on for PL/1 support. The announcement was made at the Year 2000 Conference and Expo at the Hynes Convention Center The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston's Back Bay has 193,000 square feet (0 m) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. in Boston, where Sterling Software will be in booth No. 205, demonstrating VISION:Inspect's enhanced functionality for Year 2000 projects, including the tracking of data fields through all field assignments, over millions of lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. , across an entire system. VISION:Inspect is designed to speed the analysis phase of any applications management project, including Year 2000 code remediation, by identifying the mission-critical applications to help IT managers set priorities. VISION:Inspect also allows IT professionals to see how changing one application might impact other applications and the system as a whole. VISION:Inspect's system-wide and cross-system analysis components provide both an overview and a detailed view of COBOL and PL/1 source code, JCL (Job Control Language) A command language for mini and mainframe operating systems that launches applications. It specifies priority, program size and running sequence as well as the files and databases used. JCL - Job Control Language , copy libraries, include statements, as well as BMS BMS abbr. Bachelor of Marine Science and MFS MFS Medicare fee schedule screens. In addition, VISION:Inspect includes a wide range of Year 2000 analysis programs that can be activated with a click of a mouse. It creates graphical representations of program architecture to help IT professionals quickly pinpoint problem areas and see the potential impact of code changes. "Because a change to one date field in one application has the potential to impact related applications, databases and even the enterprise-wide system as a whole, IT professionals need a tool that will help them in analysis and planning by graphically mapping all the possible impacts of a Year 2000 project," said Dennis Fitzpatrick, vice president, marketing for Sterling Software, Information Management Division. "VISION:Inspect provides this crucial information which is vital to planning any application management project, including date remediation." New Features VISION:Inspect 6.0, which runs on PCs under Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
-- Impact Analysis Tool: This new tool provides detailed information about a data item's movement through source code. It traces the item's relationships and impacts with other data items and categorizes the impacts, such as synonyms, copybooks, data files and screen fields. It provides IT professionals with a robust, easy-to-use tool for ensuring data integrity. It also eliminates guess work when determining the impact of application component modifications. -- Automatic Component Locator: During initial setup, the administrator can specify a subset of modules, such as JCL or CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without tables, and use the Automatic Component Locator to automatically drill down, find and load all required components. For example, the user can specify a CICS program control table and drill down to the associated programs, screens and copybooks. This feature makes initial setup of a project easier and faster by eliminating the need to manually add all the components. -- Split Screen Editor: The Split Screen Source view now includes a full-featured Windows editor containing a Global Change tool integrated with the Execution Simulator, Code Flow view, Inventory view and Screen view. This gives the user full editing capabilities in Source view and provides a highly effective way to maintain source code when used in conjunction with analysis tools and browsers. -- Improved Caching System: Consolidated for improved memory handling, this feature increases the stability and processing speed See MHz. of VISION:Inspect. VISION:Inspect is part of Sterling Software's applications management suite of tools for addressing the Year 2000, code restructuring, portfolio assessment, COBOL re-documentation and program impact analysis. Information Management Division Sterling Software's Information Management Division (IMD IMD - intermodulation distortion ), with headquarters in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area, provides solutions for global access to corporate data. IMD's products and services satisfy the data access, applications portfolio management and integration needs of cross-industry users, regardless of business function and independent of computing platform See platform. . About Sterling Software Sterling Software is a leading provider of software and services for the applications management, systems management and federal systems markets. Sterling Software, with its headquarters in Dallas, has a worldwide installed base of more than 20,000 customer sites and has 3,300 employees in 85 offices worldwide. For more information on Sterling Software, visit the company's Web site at http://www.sterling.com . -0- VISION:Inspect is a trademark of Sterling Software Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Sterling Software Inc., Woodland Hills, Calif. Dennis Fitzpatrick/Kimberly French, 818/716-1616 dennis_fitzpatrick@sterling.com kimberly_french@sterling.com |
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