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Welcome to EuroSmart, an efficient and accurate tool that analyzes COBOL applications involving monetary transactions and that simplifies euro enablement.
EuroSmart provides a complete environment and range of tools for project inventory, and application analysis. With EuroSmart, you can identify the monetary implications within an application, and go on to assess the impact and manage the process of converting the application to handle euros.
Apart from this Getting Started book, all the documentation is online only. You get to it from the Windows 95 or Windows NT Start menu, or from EuroSmart's Help menu. This Getting Started book is both online and in printed book form. All necessary instructions for installing EuroSmart are displayed by the installation utility, Setup.
Let's start with a brief description of the major parts of EuroSmart. Once you're familiar with these you will be ready to start exploring EuroSmart using the tutorials. The chapters Start Here for the Tutorials onward contain a set of tutorials that together form a tour of EuroSmart.
EuroSmart comprises:
Built into the EuroSmart architecture is an unrivalled understanding of the COBOL language, which is key to enable the analysis tools to:
You produce sets of potential points of interest by running the analysis tools. You then combine sets in various ways and run them through further tools, removing the points of interest that are not, after all, related to monetary transactions. In this way, you rapidly locate the actual code that requires modification.
You can create your own tools based on a sequence of tools and set manipulations that you have developed and want to automate and use again and again. This is particularly useful in situations where the procedure for identifying a particular type of item involves several passes through the analysis tools including set manipulation.
The analysis tools are supplied with country-specific settings, which encapsulate our local knowledge and give you reliable defaults. The Configuration Wizard enables you to amend the country-specific settings to suit your own application, country and organization.
Throughout the process of investigating potential changes, your work is centered on the worksheet. The worksheet stores points of interest such as data items, statements and data files, and it records the categories you assign to the points of interest, as well as any decisions or changes you make regarding them. This means that the worksheet documents the application analysis phase, both in extent and detail. From here, you can monitor progress and output a variety of reports as needed.
A wide range of reports are available for monitoring progress and for auditing purposes.
These are supplied in COBOL source code so that you can use these or adapt them as required in your applications.
A central component of EuroSmart is a project database containing a complete representation of an application's source code. The database represents not only the content of your application but also its structure. The database can handle many different types of source code, including COBOL, JCL, BMS and so on. When you load the source into the database, it is parsed, checking for inconsistencies, misnamed components and so on. Once the database is loaded, any analysis you do operates on the database. When you need to work on the actual source files, you can display them in context and amend them if required, using the integrated editor. Revolve also provides sophisticated graphical views of the application to aid application understanding.
Revolve supplements its base support with specific language extensions for Assembler, PL/I and Unisys COBOL systems. Each extension provides a language parser that identifies individual components of an application system, such as programs, copy or include files, variables, job steps, data files and so on. The parser then adds these components to the Revolve database.
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