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From: Ira Baxter on 29 Jan 2010 18:41
Semantic Designs is pleased to announce the availability of a variety of
specific tools for analyzing IBM Enterprise COBOL (and JCL), complete with
GUI integration of each into the IBM RDz Eclipse environment.



The tools include:



* Source Code Search Engine for large software systems.

Lightning fast search simultaneously across multiple languages

(COBOL [IBM Enterprise and AS400], and as bonus,

JCL, PL/1, Natural, C#, Java, C++, C, Ada, PHP, Fortran, VB6, ...)

leveraging the language syntax of each to minimize false positive hits.

See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SearchEngine



* Test Coverage. Provides branch coverage.

Integrates coverage data for large sets of programs and displays union
data.

See
http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/TestCoverage/COBOLTestCoverage.html



* Metrics. Provides classic metrics data (SLOC, Comments, Whitespace,
Halstead,

Cyclomatic, SEI Maintainability index, ...) down to the paragraph level
with

rollups for sections, programs, and systems (directories of programs).

See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/Metrics/COBOLMetrics.html



* Smart Differencer. A syntax-sensitive DIFF that reports changes in terms

of language structures (identifiers, expressions, statements, blocks,
....)

See
http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer/COBOLSmartDifferencer.html



* Component Connectivity. Determines for various mainframe application
components

(databases, COBOL programs, JCL, screens), which component accesses
which

other component and how it does so (read/write/execute/use/...). This
is

being deployed in a large offshore national bank with 8000 COBOL
programs,

250 databases and 2000 JCL scripts).

See
http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/Architecture/ComponentConnectivity.html



Most of these tools are available for other languages, too, but not yet in
Eclipse form.



Semantic Designs bhas a key technology, DMS, a kind of generalized compiler

that enables custom program analysis and transformation tools to be built
for modest costs.

The company uses DMS to define and implement custom software engineering
tools for software analysis and reengineering, and provides tool-based
services to companies with large scale software systems, covering enterprise
applications, embedded systems and avionics software. We make the difficult
practical; see the B-2 Stealth Bomber migration described on our web site.



The company has was founded in 1995 and is located in Austin, Texas.



Ira Baxter, Ph.D., CEO

Semantic Designs, Inc.






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