Adpac Corp, San Francisco has a new release, C3.02, of its PM/SS toolkit for the maintenance and enhancement of existing systems, data administration, and reverse engineering on IBM mainframes running MVS. PM/SS analyses the impact of implementing system wide changes, analysing and documenting Cobol, PL/I and assembly language code, and is designed to be used to help establish and enforce programming and data naming standards. PM/SS also performs data name standardisation and creates a load module for the major data dictionaries. The new release expands PM/SS analysis to include all programs called from other libraries and from user-written subroutines, and three new features are available as separately priced options. The CICS interface option enables an analyst to report on all resources used in CICS applications. The IMS/IDMS interface option enables PM/SS to correlate the important control fields in IBM IMS database systems and to access, retrieve, and analyse copy members from the IDMS IDD data dictionary. The third option, called Design, correlates business and application elements and designs a logical subject matter database through data name normalisation. Release C3.02 is also claimed to have improved PM/SS program run times; simplified processing; and enhanced browse, search, replace, and reformat capabilities. The new release fully supports Cobol II, has greatly improved PL/I processing, and handles Japanese Kanji character data formats for PM/SS users in the Pacific Rim. The company gave no prices.
