Rational Asset Analyzer is an application understanding tool for effective development and maintenance cross platform efforts . Asset Analyzer helps almost everyone in application understanding and component relationships , For Managers it can help them in Application governance, For Analysts ; Rational Asset Analyzer facilitates in carrying out change analysis and project estimation , For Developers RAA helps them in program understanding with data flow analysis and for Tester it can help them in test planning activities.

It actually Enables you to identify both the mainframe and the distributed artifacts effected by a proposed code change to a cross platform application so that you can make changes more quickly, with less risk

• Solution for inventory and static analysis of new projects or maintenance efforts
• Instant, interactive delivery of high value information to people and processes
• Helps accelerate the discovery and analysis phases
• Assists in the development and test phases
• Business rule mining capabilities
• Gain control of your assets & know what you have through counts & metrics

RAA for System Z

• Installs on z/OS
• Scans artifacts in place
• Z/OS source & resources of interest
• Data retained in DB2 for z/OS
• Provides a remote component for Windows or AIX server for scan of Java assets
• Supports shared knowledge use case