How to trace program calls? X-Analysis

Stuart, et al,

I saw this post in the archives and thought I'd lend my cudos to what you said. As you may know, I used X-Analysis for years to help understand a vendor's MANY programs in their applications and providing power users with a sort of "meta data model" of the data warehouse.

The Structured Chart Diagram, especially in its detailed form, was most helpful in unlocking what the vendor was doing in their code. This was essential in developing the data warehouse in a separate partition for business intelligence. On the data warehouse side, I used the excellent documentation capabilities of X-Analysis to create a meta-data model so our power users could clearly understand the data layout in the data warehouse. Use me as a reference if you like.

Take care,

David Odom
BT Consulting
Casa Grande, AZ

Hi Loyd,



X-Analysis works even without the source code
or SYNON model.



One of the diagrammatic constructs in X-Analysis is Structure Chart Diagram
which does exactly what you are asking.



I wrote a series of articles this year for system I news which has an
example of the diagram extracted to visio on page 5 of this:



http://www.databorough.com/downloads/SystemiNews/IBM_i_the_present_and_the_f
uture.pdf



You can trial the product for free for thirty days so you could get this
done for nothing as a one off.



cheers



Stuart Milligan

web: www.databorough.com