eXplain
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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SMART TS XL
SMART TS XL is an enterprise-grade application discovery and “software intelligence” platform that enables organizations to search, analyze, and visualize dependencies across all their codebases, regardless of platform or language. It ingests source code, database schemas, configuration files, documentation, ticketing logs, JCL, and other assets, from legacy mainframes (COBOL, JCL, PL/I, AS/400, etc.) to modern distributed environments (Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript, C++, databases, scripts, text files), and catalogs everything into a centralized, searchable repository. With patented indexing technology, SMART TS XL can process millions or even billions of lines of code and return results in seconds, allowing users to instantly locate where particular fields, error messages, modules, or logic are used enterprise-wide. It generates interactive visualizations like control-flow diagrams, cross-reference graphs, and impact-analysis maps.
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EasyCode
EasyCode - AI that understands your codebase. Unblock developers by answering their questions instantly. Get context-aware code suggestions, understand legacy projects, and find the relevant code with ease. Use ChatGPT where you work - inside the IDE. Contextual answers and suggestions that remove friction in developer workflow. Ensure consistent coding style and receive real-time feedback on code quality. Save time from tedious and repetitive work and more time for high impact coding tasks. Facilitate better context and knowledge sharing among team members.
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Visual Expert
Visual Expert is a static code analyzer for Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL, and PowerBuilder.
Identify code dependencies to modify your code without breaking your application.
Scan your code to improve the security, performance, and quality.
Perform Impact analysis to Identify breaking changes.
Automatically scan your code to detect and fix security vulnerabilities, bugs and maintenance Issues.
Implement continuous code inspection
Understand the inner workings of your code with call graphs, code diagrams, CRUD Matrix and Object Dependency Matrix (ODM).
Automatically generate an HTML Source Code documentation.
Explore your code exploration with hyperlinks
Compare applications, databases or pieces of code.
Improve maintainability. Clean up code. Comply with dev standards.
Analyze and Improve DB code performance: Find slow objects and SQL queries,
Optimize a slow object, a Chain of calls a slow SQL, Get a query Execution Plan.
And much more.
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