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Jim LiebertProduct OwnerFebruary 2015

Value Today, Essential TomorrowAbend-AID

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Jim LiebertProduct Owner

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Application Understanding

Invest in

Future

Keep Cost Down

Mainframe Ecosystem

Elegant Simplicity in Design and Usability

NewCode

Intellectual Property Preservation

Intellectual Property Advancement

ExistingCode

Balance Cost Versus Performance

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& FixFind

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Find in Abend-AID, Fix in Xpediter

Find and Fix

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Find in Abend-AID, Fix in Xpediter

Hot-key from Abend-AID to Xpediter

Find and Fix

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Find in Abend-AID, Fix in Xpediter

Hot-key from Abend-AID to Xpediter

Abend-AID Web Viewer and Eclipse

Find and Fix

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Available on Topaz, Eclipse plug-ins and Abend-AID Web Viewer

& FixFind

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Easy Access

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Right-click access to Abend-AID

Easy Access

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Right-click access to Abend-AID

Hot-key from JES Explorer to Abend-AID

Easy Access

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Still using green screens? Ask installer about AB400 message

Easy Access

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Abend-AID to File-AID

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Abend-AID to File-AID

Edit or browse data directly from Abend-AID report

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Abend-AID to File-AID

Edit or browse data directly from Abend-AID report

Previously only available in ISPF

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Abend-AID to File-AID

Similar capability exists in ISPF; now available for Topaz and

Eclipse plug-ins too!

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Historical database of Fault Information

Fault Analytics

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Historical database of Fault Information

Trend analysis and historical background of faults

Fault Analytics

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Historical database of Fault Information

Trend analysis and historical background to faults

Push reports and fault notifications to interested users

Fault Analytics

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Historical database of Fault Information

Trend analysis and historical background to faults

Push reports and fault notifications to interested users

Default or customized reports

Fault Analytics

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Server can run on System z or Windows

Fault Analytics

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Ability to ignore batch abends based on jobs, programs, user ID, system ID or abend code

Additional Enhancements

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Ability to ignore batch abends based on jobs, programs, user ID, system ID or abend code

COBOL V5 support

Additional Enhancements

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Ability to ignore batch abends based on jobs, programs, user ID, system ID or abend code.

COBOL V5 support¹

Additional Enhancements

¹ Share presentation 17033 on March 6 – also available via Share Live.

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Ability to ignore batch abends based on jobs, programs, user ID, system ID or abend code.

COBOL V5 support

Installation via RFN … now with a Common Installer

Additional Enhancements

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Source Support

Strategic

Best Practices Guide

Additional Enhancements

Tactical

Interface with your existing SCM tool

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Source Support

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Source Support

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Additional Enhancements

If you aren’t seeing COBOL, PL/I or Assembler source in

your Abend-AID … contact us.

Source Support

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Abend-AID 12.4

• Better integration with Xpediter, File-AID, JES Explorer, SCM

• Deeper analysis: history, trends and notifications

• Currency

• Simple install

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Introducing

• Mainframe data is extremely valuable

– Repurposed for mobile apps, Big Data analytics and other new deliverables

• Topaz empowers next-gen developers and data architects

– May not have deep mainframe expertise

– Discover, visualize and work with data in common, intuitive manner

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Empowering Next Generation Developers

Enterprise Data Editor

Relationship Visualizer

Host-to-host Copy

ProgramVisualizer

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Future Innovations

• Agile development enables us to provide innovative value to your business

• Quarterly releases of new features and products

• Providing tools to help you work smarter and faster

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QUESTIONS

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