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Congratulations on choosing Revolve!
Revolve is a complete application analysis and maintenance tool that greatly simplifies legacy system management. Revolve reduces the cost and complexity of projects ranging from everyday bug fixes to large-scale system refurbishment by providing programmers with powerful inventory analysis features and comprehensive exploration tools.
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 Revolve's Help menu. This Getting Started book is both online and in printed book form. All necessary instructions for installing Revolve are displayed by the installation utility, Setup.
Let's start with a brief description of the major parts that comprise Revolve. Once you're familiar with these you will be ready to start using Revolve. The chapters The Tutorials Start Here! onward are a set of tutorials that take you through all the major parts:
The main window of Revolve serves as a desktop for your project analysis tasks. From the main window you have access to menus that allow you to open, load, and create projects as well as invoke system analysis utilities, tools, and browsers.Revolve features are housed within the main window.
Revolve requires you to gather an array of source code components or files and compile them into a single source entity known as a project (.prj). Projects are easy to create with Revolve's Add Components feature. You have the ability to define search directories for commonly used project components, as well as map file extensions for efficient project content. Once a project is created, you are ready to begin your system analysis.
A tool that serves as the manager for all your project specific needs, including displaying individual source components that comprise the project, adding and deleting components, identifying the status of components, bringing the project up-to-date, and more.
A set of tools that facilitate your source code analysis goal: locate discrepancies or targets and implement modifications. You can measure the complexity of your project, locate impacts, create coding tasks, and directly edit your source code.
An array of browsers designed and organized to supply you with specific information about your project components. Find where your programs are called, examine your copybooks, and view your screens. Some browsers are designed to examine your language specific project components, like CICS, DMS, and JCL.
Features that apply to Revolve's settings as they impact your project. Included are option settings that govern specific and general project controls. You can setup external tools in Revolve to customize your system analysis. Also, display settings can be changed according to your needs.
A feature that enables you to refer to files on a mainframe from your workstation, just as if the files were on a local or network drive. You need the separate MERANT product Source Connect to utilize this functionality.
The following optional extensions enable you to offload particular types of application:
Supplements Revolve. It includes a System/370 Assembler language parser that identifies individual components of an Assembler application system, such as programs and associated copy files, variables, literals, job steps, screens, data files and databases, and adds them to the Revolve project database.
A language extension that gives you the ability to apply the powerful application inventory, analysis, and maintenance capabilities of Revolve to your enterprise PL/I systems. It extends Revolve's analysis and implementation features for use by PL/I programmers.
An extension to Revolve's functionality that introduces a Unisys parser for Unisys language support. It identifies individual components of a Unisys application system, such as programs and associated include files, ecl, dms, and adds them to the Revolve project database.
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