XINFO – Eclipse RDz Plugin

What is XINFO? A complete cross referencing tool for reporting and to analyze data from a wide variety of systems of the datacenter: XINFO Assembler, C, Cobol, PL/I, Java, … JCL, Script, CICS, DB2, IMS, SMF, … Automic, CA7, Control-M TWS, Zeke, …

What is XINFO? A complete cross referencing tool for reporting and to analyze data from a wide variety of systems of the datacenter:

What Purpose has XINFO? XINFO helps projects like maintain or reshape legacy applications merge, consolidate or separate datacenters clean up production environments convert scheduling systems and more … XINFO quick accurate helps to gather information like where is a program or dataset used? who is using/updating which DB2 table? where is a sub program, copybook or variable used? when and how did a (critical) job run, was it late? etc. …

Why an eclipse RDz plugin? Eclipse is a development environment that is quite popular in Java development. RDz (Rational Developer for system z) is a development environment for z/OS (Cobol, PL/I). XINFO’s eclipse RDz plug-in allows to access XINFO tables directly out of eclipse based development environments like RDz or others. It’s a seamless integration into developer’s workbench. Following slides are showing a few samples to give a first impression. This button can be used to jump to specific slides in this presentation. Click on this symbol to jump to the overview slide General Information

Additional search field Table of Contents General Information Use of SQL Additional search field Group by Export Line Commands COBOL - Copy Browse Source Programs used in JCL DB2 Access

How to work with XINFO, RDz (eclipse) 1) Start XINFO and Logon

Help manual If you need help click on “XINFO Online Help” to search for your problem If you need help click on “XINFO Online Help” to search for your problem

If you want to change the settings, click on “Options” Change options If you want to change the settings, click on “Options” Go to “General Settings” to change e.g. “number of rows transferred from host” from 999 to 5000

Switch View Go to “View” to change between “Workspace Tree”, “Workspace List”, “Favourites” and “Shortcuts”

Create Favourites To add displays to your Favourites, just click with a right mouse click on the display and select “Add to Favourites”.

Create Shortcut Type in a name and apply If you would like to create a shortcut, select a display, type in your search criteria and click on “Actions…” and select “Create Shortcut…”

Use of SQL If you want to see the SQL, click on “Actions…” and select “Show SQL” …

… and save, load or execute your SQL. Use of SQL … and save, load or execute your SQL.

Edit SQL If you would like to change the displayed columns, click on “Show SQL” and e.g. display only the first two

Click on “Execute” to apply the new SQL Edit SQL Click on “Execute” to apply the new SQL

Edit SQL The result

Legend If you don’t know what “F” or “R” means, click on “Show Legend” to see the full name of the column

More search criteria fields If you need more search criterias, click e.g. on “Jobname”. You can now apply a additional search criteria with “OR” and “AND”

More search criteria fields The result

More search criteria fields You can delete the extra field with a click on “Actions…” and “Reset”.

Group (by) If you would like to Group your result click on “Group” and select a column. If you would like to Group your result click on “Group” and select a column.

Group (by) The result

Export You can export your results to e.g. Excel. Save the file and open it with Excel.

Export The result

You can apply Line Commands simply with a right mouse click …

… and see the related JCL-EXEC statements Line Commands … and see the related JCL-EXEC statements

How to work with XINFO, RDz (eclipse) Search e.g. which programs are using that include?

COBOL Copy 2) Select COBOL Copy

COBOL Copy 3) Search criteria

Result (programs, source member, line no. of copy statement etc.) COBOL Copy Result (programs, source member, line no. of copy statement etc.)

Right mouse gives more information or e.g. browse source code

Quick view to source code (member from z/OS) Browse Source Quick view to source code (member from z/OS)

In which batch jobs runs my program? Programs used in JCL In which batch jobs runs my program? 1) Select JCL EXEC

Programs used in JCL 2) Search criteria

Programs used in JCL, Run Info 3) Result (Jobname, Stepname, Parm etc.)

Programs used in JCL, Run Info Right mouse give more information, e.g. SMF Data

SMF program run information Based on SMF start/end times, duration, CPU usage etc.)

DB2 Access 1) Select Cobol DB2 access Which programs are accessing my DB2 table?

DB2 Access 2) Search criteria

DB2 Access 3) Result (Program, Statement Line, Object (=Table/View), Action, etc.)

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