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OpenMake Meister |
Impact Analysis is truly a luxury in the overall development process. The difficulty with impact analysis is that it must be easy to implement and be easy to read. Meister for z/OS handles impact analysis using a simplified method. First, to build an impact analysis report, a flag is passed to the OOMLOM program. When OOMLOM reads the Build Control file, it scans all dependencies, recording date, and time. It then generates a report in XML format. Secondly Meister for z/OS displays the XML report in two views, the Implosion View and the Explosion View. The Implosion View shows all executables impacted by a source module. The Explosion View shows all impact, starting with the load module, working down through the libraries and source code.