Syspedia Plans and History

2010 – Sept/3Q2010 - Version 4.01

·        Improved Element Search to work directly within the WIKI portion of the Syspedia product.

·        Added addition reports to detail the element dependencies through movement and validation processes.

2009 – August/3Q2009 - Version 1.01

·        Improved Java Search capabilities.

2009 – April/1Q2009 - Version 1.01

·        Improving Standards Administration to work directly within the WIKI portion of the Syspedia product.

2009 – March/1Q2009 - Version 1.01

·        Adding the ability to add UNIX shell and korn shell scripts to Syspedia.

·        Also adding enhancements to the Java module support for better searching capabilities.

2008 – December/4Q2008 - Version 1.01

·        Added an ISPF interface for mainframe TSO users.

·        ISPF search capabilities from a single input location mirroring the web Google-like interface.

2008 – November/4Q2008 - Version 3.81

·        Improved “Google-like” user web interface to consolidate search criteria screens.

·        Also added the ability to save search criteria and search results for later user reference.

·        Adding direct interface for searching the WIKI

2008 – March/1Q2008 - Version 3.81

·        Added the ability to add java modules to Syspedia.

·        The Syspedia repository can now consume and provide searching for data elements and java method and services names.

2007 – November/4Q2007 - Version 3.51

·        Added WIKI into the Syspedia tool suite for collaboration and discussion of meta data.

·        The Syspedia WIKI provides a mechanisms to support all types of meta data file types such as XML, Adobe PDFs, audio and video and other unstructured data types.  The WIKI also adds meta data forms and other WIKI consensus building tools for the meta data discussion.

2007 - March/1Q2007 - Version 3.01

• Added new search support for Job Control Language (JCL) elements.

• The JCL user management and search enhancements in Version 3.01 provide better understanding by cross referencing application jobs and programs to their database and file elements.  These enhancements also provide JCL procedure expansion and symbolic resolution for understanding multiple data references across multiple jobs. These enhancements further help the data professional analyze JCL for integration and consolidation of application data in seconds instead of days or hours.

2006 - July/3Q2006 - Version 2.71

• Added additional search capabilities within the end user interface.

  • Added search by keyword across all applications and platforms

  • Added search capabilities for additional application program reserved words

2006 - Feb/1Q2006 - Version 2.52

• Added support for long element names and Websphere Application Server 6.

  • Added further support for DB2 Version 8 for z/OS long 128 byte column names and definitions

  • Added further enhancements to handle integration with Websphere Application Server on z/OS

2005 - July/3Q2005 - Version 2.10

• Added Standards Enhancer - helps business analysts and data administrators understand application data elements related to a corporate standard name and definition.  Now you can automatically discover the analyze your application's compliance to the corporate standards without taking precious development time or resources.

2004 - December/1Q2005 - Version 2.03

• Added Standards Administration capabilities, Java encryption and better user management.

  • The Standards Administration features provides an automated process for data management professionals to drive element naming and definition standards across all enterprise applications without any extra time or developer level of effort.  By quickly and easily defining the element standard name and definition, the administrator can then associate other elements to be transformed.

• Added Websphere 5.11 and Apache Tomcat 4.1.31 support

• Added DB2 Version 8.2 support

• Added JDBC 2.0 Type 4 pure Java support

2004 - July - Version 2.02

• Added DBMS Inquiry for overall enterprise DBMS structure and data research

• Added parameters to extracts for multiple department Syspedia repositories

2004 - March - Version 2.01

• Added Standards Discovery into the Repository for enterprise level reports

• Added Apache Tomcat Version 5 support

• Added capturing of "Outside Calls" to analyze related module

2003 - October - Version 2.00

• Added JCL extract capabilities for job, step, proc, process, program relationships to load libraries, files, DBMS tables analysis

• Added Extract Card generator into the web application for ease of use

• Added DB2 Version 8 support

• Added "IF" statement analysis to understand comparison and elements

2003 - July - Version 1.10

• Added Reports Repository for enterprise level reports

• Added Element Relationship Analysis

• Added data element movement analysis

2003 - March - Version 1.01

• Extracts of COBOL programs for analysis into repository

• Extracts of more file structures, i.e.; Visual Basic, Java, UNIX and others layouts into repository

2002 - December - Version 1.0

• Base extract of copybooks into repository