Profiling Mainframe Applications
Jørgen Møller Larsen
Nykredit Bank (DK)

A user's experience on profiling mainframe applications with the tool PathPoint from ASG (Allen Systems Group). Learn how PathPoint can beat bad or non-existing documentation, and discover what's inside your legacy mainframe applications. PathPoint will help you to understand how your applications work, locate performance hogs and disclose bad designs. PathPoint makes runtime analysis of online transactions or batch jobs and provides detailed information about program and data usage and the performance of programs and SQL statements.

The speaker will tell how PathPoint was used to secure the quality of the CICS backend in a project for a complex web service-based application.

Jørgen Møller Larsen has 20 years of experience working with mainframe-centric environments in the Danish financial sector, and is responsible for the use and implementation of development, testing and performance tools in Nykredit.

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