SolonDiscovery
First demonstrated in September 2011, SolonDiscovery is used in conjunction with SolonBridge to provide process discovery for IBM CICS 3270 applications. Information from the CICS CSD resource definition repository and BMS maps are extracted and combined with a recording of an actual 3270 session. Process discovery presentation allows business analysts to quickly identify business processes that are candidates for web service enablement.
SolonDiscovery differs significantly from other 3270 session recorders:
- An extraction phase mines the CICS CSD resource definition repository. Transaction, program, and BMS mapset descriptions are extracted as entries in a file. These file entries may then be annotated by the user to provide additional information.
- The SolonDiscovery recording program runs within the CICS environment and accesses a customer 3270 application using the SolonBridge and CICS Link3270 bridge. A terminal emulator is only used to drive the recording session.
- Recordings can be annotated at any point in the recording, either during or after a recording session, to provide additional information in the recording report.
- Screen snapshots are not recorded. Only the outbound Application Data Structure (ADS) and the inbound user keystrokes are recorded. During the report generation the screen is re-constituted by combining the recorded ADS information and user keystrokes with information from the actual Basic Mapping Support (BMS) load module and the ADS descriptor contained in the load module.
- Screen identification rules are not required. The screen is positively identified by a parameter in the Link3270 bridge Send Map vector.
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