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Compuware Upgrades Topaz

Compuware Corporation released a significant upgrade to Topaz, its solution for making the most of IBM z Systems environments as experienced mainframers retire and a new generation of developers, data architects and QA professionals take their place.

Topaz’s new Program Analysis intelligently analyzes mainframe programs and presents the results of that analysis in a visually intuitive manner. This visual analysis empowers both mainframe-inexperienced and mainframe-experienced IT professionals to:

- Readily and accurately understand COBOL and PL/l application logic and logical dependencies, even for applications with which they are not familiar and/or which are not well-documented

- Quickly identify problems such as undefined fields, range violations and dead code—then correct them before compiling

- Easily assess program attributes such as size, complexity, number of files and tables, etc.

- Easily assess procedure-level metrics such as number of performs, conditionals, GOTO statements, and McCabe complexity metrics

- Better collaborate across development and operations teams to find and fix code issues

Topaz’s program visualization capabilities are in addition to the data visualization capabilities provided in the initial release of Topaz. Combined, this data and program visualization empowers IT professionals of all skill levels to better understand and work with all types of applications — regardless of their familiarity with any underlying data formats, computing platforms or programming languages.

Topaz provides its rich code visualization, data visualization and collaboration capabilities within the familiar look-and-feel of the Eclipse IDE.

By delivering such a substantial upgrade of Topaz just 13 weeks after its original roll-out in January, Compuware is fulfilling its promise to adopt an Agile development model whereby it will release new capabilities on a quarterly release cycle. This continuous stream of mainframe innovation is in stark contrast to other mainframe ISVs, which typically operate under an annual release cycle or longer.

This business agility enables Compuware to tightly align its deliverables with customers’ evolving needs — which in turn enables its customers to more aggressively evolve their mainframe environments, so they can better keep pace with the relentlessly escalating demands of their businesses.

“To more adaptively apply their mainframe hardware, software and data to their business challenges, companies need mainframe solution vendors that are similarly adaptive,” said Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley. “Compuware is leading the way in bringing Agile development — and thereby business agility — to the mainframe for the benefit of customers that need to adapt more quickly in today’s fast-moving markets.”

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Compuware Upgrades Topaz

Compuware Corporation released a significant upgrade to Topaz, its solution for making the most of IBM z Systems environments as experienced mainframers retire and a new generation of developers, data architects and QA professionals take their place.

Topaz’s new Program Analysis intelligently analyzes mainframe programs and presents the results of that analysis in a visually intuitive manner. This visual analysis empowers both mainframe-inexperienced and mainframe-experienced IT professionals to:

- Readily and accurately understand COBOL and PL/l application logic and logical dependencies, even for applications with which they are not familiar and/or which are not well-documented

- Quickly identify problems such as undefined fields, range violations and dead code—then correct them before compiling

- Easily assess program attributes such as size, complexity, number of files and tables, etc.

- Easily assess procedure-level metrics such as number of performs, conditionals, GOTO statements, and McCabe complexity metrics

- Better collaborate across development and operations teams to find and fix code issues

Topaz’s program visualization capabilities are in addition to the data visualization capabilities provided in the initial release of Topaz. Combined, this data and program visualization empowers IT professionals of all skill levels to better understand and work with all types of applications — regardless of their familiarity with any underlying data formats, computing platforms or programming languages.

Topaz provides its rich code visualization, data visualization and collaboration capabilities within the familiar look-and-feel of the Eclipse IDE.

By delivering such a substantial upgrade of Topaz just 13 weeks after its original roll-out in January, Compuware is fulfilling its promise to adopt an Agile development model whereby it will release new capabilities on a quarterly release cycle. This continuous stream of mainframe innovation is in stark contrast to other mainframe ISVs, which typically operate under an annual release cycle or longer.

This business agility enables Compuware to tightly align its deliverables with customers’ evolving needs — which in turn enables its customers to more aggressively evolve their mainframe environments, so they can better keep pace with the relentlessly escalating demands of their businesses.

“To more adaptively apply their mainframe hardware, software and data to their business challenges, companies need mainframe solution vendors that are similarly adaptive,” said Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley. “Compuware is leading the way in bringing Agile development — and thereby business agility — to the mainframe for the benefit of customers that need to adapt more quickly in today’s fast-moving markets.”

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In March, New Relic published the State of Observability for Media and Entertainment Report to share insights, data, and analysis into the adoption and business value of observability across the media and entertainment industry. Here are six key takeaways from the report ...

Regardless of their scale, business decisions often take time, effort, and a lot of back-and-forth discussion to reach any sort of actionable conclusion ... Any means of streamlining this process and getting from complex problems to optimal solutions more efficiently and reliably is key. How can organizations optimize their decision-making to save time and reduce excess effort from those involved? ...

As enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, CIOs are routinely exceeding their cloud budgets — a concern that's about to face additional pressure from an unexpected direction: uncertainty over semiconductor tariffs. The CIO Cloud Trends Survey & Report from Azul reveals the extent continued cloud investment despite cost overruns, and how organizations are attempting to bring spending under control ...

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Businesses that face downtime or outages risk financial and reputational damage, as well as reducing partner, shareholder, and customer trust. One of the major challenges that enterprises face is implementing a robust business continuity plan. What's the solution? The answer may lie in disaster recovery tactics such as truly immutable storage and regular disaster recovery testing ...

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