CAST ImagingCAST
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eXplainPKS Software
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About
CAST Imaging reveals the inner workings of an application by automatically mapping every technology, component, dependency, and transaction across the stack. It interprets more than 150 languages, frameworks, and databases to give teams an instant, unified view of complex software systems. With AI-powered insights, it explains architecture, shows data flows, and clarifies hidden relationships that typically take weeks to uncover. Developers and architects can analyze change impact, spot structural risks, and accelerate modernization with confidence. The platform reduces onboarding time, eliminates blind spots, and makes large-scale applications easier to evolve. CAST Imaging turns software into a visual, searchable knowledge map—so teams can deliver better outcomes faster.
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About
eXplain is a specialized code-analysis and legacy-system evaluation tool from PKS Software GmbH, designed to deeply analyze, map, document, and assess legacy applications, especially on mainframe platforms such as IBM i (AS/400) and IBM Z, so organizations can understand what lives in their software, how it’s structured, and what parts are worth keeping, refactoring or retiring. It imports existing source code into an independent “eXplain server”, no need to install anything on the host system, then uses advanced parsers to examine languages like COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, RPG, JCL, and others, along with data about databases (Db2, Adabas, IMS), job-schedulers, transaction monitors, and more. eXplain builds a central repository that becomes a knowledge hub; from there, it generates cross-language dependency graphs, data-flow maps, interface analyses, clusterings of related modules, and detailed object-and-resource usage reports.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook
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Audience
CAST Imaging is designed for software architects, modernization teams, engineering leaders, and developers who need full visibility into complex applications to accelerate transformation and reduce risk
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Audience
IT organizations, architects, and software-maintenance teams seeking a tool to modernize, refactor, or safely retire legacy systems
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Support
Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
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Support
Phone Support
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API
Offers API
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Pricing
$9,000 per year
Free Version
Free Trial
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Training
Documentation
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Training
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Company InformationCAST
Founded: 1990
United States
www.castsoftware.com/imaging
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Company InformationPKS Software
Founded: 1991
Germany
www.pks.de/en/kompetenzen/software-analyse-explain
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Integrations
C
C++
CAST Highlight
COBOL
HTML
IBM Db2
IBM Power Servers
IBM Z
IBM i
Java
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Integrations
C
C++
CAST Highlight
COBOL
HTML
IBM Db2
IBM Power Servers
IBM Z
IBM i
Java
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