Re: how is data arrived at in this table/column?

jon - thanks

but I'm referring to after you use those tools... say you know that pgmA
puts data in table/column, but pgmA is a 20 year old monolithic beast with
6K+ lines of code... and customer wants to know the calculations involved
to produce the data in that field :)

That pgm may have 50+ subroutines
That pgm may have repeated GoTo's..
etc...

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:30 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Use one of the number of available commercial tools that can do this.

e.g.

Abstract/Probe, Hawkeye, the X-Analysis tool family and others.

If you use RDi it will build a where used/defined/changed list in the
outline view. That's what I use most of the time - but it only works
within a program - not across program tools like the tools do.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 10, 2018, at 10:16 AM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

So being in the legacy world for 20+ years and working with ancient
cobol/rpg code that a single pgm can span 10k+ lines of code, I still

have

not found an efficient way to answer clients requests of "how is the

data

arrived at in this table/column?" Aside from a whole lot of time,

effort

and grunt work.

How do others handle these requests?
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