Much of the power of COBOL Analyzer resides in a set of program analysis tools collectively called Interactive Analysis. Interactive Analysis lets you analyze legacy programs interactively, by examining synchronized, complementary views of the same information: source, context, impacts, and so forth. You can use Interactive Analysis to analyze procedure and data flows, stage program analyses, create a project glossary, extract business rules, and much more.
Interactive Analysis is designed primarily for programs, but you can also use it to analyze map files, JCL or ECL files, IDMS schemas, and the like.