Getting Started with CA Web

Banner

The banner bar enables you to specify the workspace and project that you want to use. You can change the default workspace by selecting from the Workspace list. You can then select an appropriate project for that workspace from the Project list. Click About to see the CA Web version number.

The choices you have depends on the workspace you have configured in COBOL Analyzer Administration. In COBOL Analyzer Administration, click Administer > Configure Web Service and modify as required.

Repository Pane

The Repository pane displays the contents of the repository for the current workspace. It has two views, Folder and Type which you can toggle between using the radio buttons:

Folder: Displays the content of the repository in the same folder structure as the one they have in the host environment. This enables elements with the same name (homonyms) to be loaded and displayed.
Type: Displays the content of the repository by project, object type, and object relationship.

The Folder and Type views both consists of the following elements:

Browser: Displays the objects in the repository of the current workspace in a tree structure. Depending on the view you have selected in the Repository pane, the contents are displayed by type or by folder.
Search: Enables you to execute searches in the repository of the current workspace.

To expand a node in the Repository pane tree, click . By drilling down through the nodes you can find programs called by or called to, copybooks used, data accessed, and so forth. These elements are different depending on the element chosen. They are all relationships at object level between programs, files, database tables, copybooks, and so forth.

Note: Unlike the COBOL Analyzer IDE, the CA Web Repository Browser can not expand relationships recursively for the root object. For example, expand a JCL file that uses a control card, then expand the Used By relationship for the control card. The starting JCL is displayed, but it cannot be expanded to see its relationships again.

Double-click an object and the source code is displayed in the pane on the right as a new tab alongside Inventory pane.

Right-click an object, and a context menu with the following menu items is displayed:

Query Repository

Displays all the queries available for the selected source type:

Related Java Packages.
Boundary Points (potential) - Points that could lead to requests resources outside of Java.
Boundary Points (resolved) - Points that lead to requests resources outside of Java.
Is Invoked By
Related Java Files
Dependent Sources
Direct References (outgoing)
Direct References (incoming) - This makes references to usage directly. A program is called through a Program Entry Point so this will not return the list of Called Programs, but the includes and copies.
Is Called By
Is CRUD By
Used Data Stores
Used Sources

Diagrammer

Creates a small graph. The information on the graph depends on the requested type of graph. For example, Call Map will display all the links between programs. The following list gives the Diagrammer scopes:

Call Map: Program to program calls.
CICS Flow: Interactions between transactions, programs, and screens.
Job Flow: Process to program to data port to data store.
Screen Flow: Program to screen send/receive.
AS/400 Flow: DBFile links.
Data Flow: Program to data.
IMS Flow: Interactions between transactions, programs, screens, and segments.
Job Executive Report: Job to program, sys-program, and data store.
Natural Flow: Natural links between programs, screens, and so forth.
Program Executive Report: All links coming from a program.
Source Dependencies: Links between sources, like copies, includes, and so forth.
Unisys Flow: Unisys links.

Open

Opens the source file.

Code Search

From the Code Search pane you can execute queries. By default, the queries are the same as in COBOL Analyzer but you can create your own queries in the tool and add them to the Code Search tab.

In this pane you have two different views Code Search Queries and Code Search Reports. From Code Search Queries you can execute queries defined in Code Search in CA and from Code Search Reports you can execute pre-defined reports such as Quality Assessment, Performance Optimization, Portability Assessment, and various migration reports.

The Code Search Queries pane lets you filter by selected files or project and the language of the sources.

Click Refresh to update the list depending on your choices.

All query results appear in a new tab on the Inventory pane.

Inventory

When you start CA Web, this pane displays three different types of charts:

Object types in the workspace: Displays the types and number of elements in the workspace.
Inventory report: The verification results for each type of element.
Complexity report.: Displays information on the number of source lines, comment lines, blank lines, and include statements split by source.

When you execute a query, the results from it appear in a new tab in the Inventory pane. You can double-click an element to see its source code which will be displayed in a new view in this pane.

You can also right-click a variable and create an Impact trace for the variable. The impact trace displays how the data flows to and from other variables, files, screens, and so forth.

Business Rules

The left-hand portion of the Business Rules pane displays the business functions in your workspace in tree form:

The Grouping tab lists rules in the order you created them manually, organized by business function and rule set.
The Triggering tab lists rules in a hierarchy of triggers, in which each triggering rule can be a parent to triggering rules that depend on it in program logic.

The right-hand pane displays the attributes and other characteristics of the business function, rule set, or rule selected in the left-hand pane.

See the Extracting Business Rules chapter for more information.