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Analyze the mainframe migration blockers

Recipe IDio.moderne.mainframe.prethink.AnalyzeMigrationBlockers

Artifactio.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe

Record the CICS and IMS constructs that need a design decision before a program can move: non-local control flow, state that outlives a transaction, region affinity, resources named only at run time, and checkpoint/restart, with the whole EXEC CICS inventory beside them, which is what the size of the work is estimated from. FindMainframeMigrationBlockers and FindCicsCommands answer the same questions and mark what they found in the source; this one produces the tables and changes nothing.

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Usage

Run this recipe

This recipe has no required configuration options. Users of Moderne can run it via the Moderne CLI.

You will need to have configured the Moderne CLI on your machine before you can run the following command.

shell

mod run . --recipe AnalyzeMigrationBlockers

If the recipe is not available locally, then you can install it using:

RELEASE resolves to the newest release and LATEST to the newest build of any kind, including snapshots. Either one lets mod config recipes upgrade pull in later versions without editing this command; a pinned version stays where you put it.

RELEASE

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe:RELEASE

LATEST

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe:LATEST

Pinned version

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe:0.1.0

Data tables

Mainframe migration blockers

io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.MainframeMigrationBlockers

CICS and IMS constructs that need a design decision before a program can be moved.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.MainframeMigrationBlockers

Column	Description
Program	The COBOL program.
Paragraph	The paragraph or section containing the construct.
Category	The kind of problem the construct poses.
Construct	The command or call that raised it.
Detail	What has to be decided, and why the construct does not carry over on its own.

CICS command usages

io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.CicsCommandUsages

Every EXEC CICS command, with the options it was given.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.CicsCommandUsages

Column	Description
Program	The COBOL program containing the command.
Paragraph	The paragraph or section containing the command.
Command	The CICS command, including its qualifier where it has one, such as SEND MAP.
API group	The CICS API the command belongs to, which is the unit a Java replacement is chosen for.
Options	The command's options and operands as written.

Findings

io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.Findings

Everything the mainframe analyses found wrong, ranked, with the evidence for each and the line it is on. Sort on priority.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.Findings

Column	Description
Priority	1 for CRITICAL down to 4 for LOW, so the table sorts.
Severity	CRITICAL for code that cannot do what it was written to do, HIGH for what will break a migration if not decided deliberately, MEDIUM for what is worth knowing first, LOW for cleanup.
Category	What kind of problem it is, which is what groups the report into sections: DEAD_RULE, UNREACHABLE_CODE, COPYBOOK_DRIFT, MIGRATION_BLOCKER, RANGE_PATHOLOGY, DEAD_DATA, COMPLEXITY, LAYOUT_DRIFT, IMS_PCB_MISMATCH, IMS_SEGMENT_NOT_SENSITIVE, IMS_IO_AREA_MISMATCH, MFS_MESSAGE_LENGTH, SCREEN_ITEM_UNREACHED, SCREEN_FIELD_UNREACHED, PARSE_FAILURE, UNDOCUMENTED, STALE_DOCUMENTATION, STALE_REFERENCE, UNENFORCED_BUILD_ORDER, UNSCHEDULED_JOB, AUTOCALL_RESOLVED_REFERENCE, UNRESOLVED_EXECUTION_PATH, INHERITED_SETTING, UNLOAD_NEEDS_REDESIGN, UNLOAD_ACCESS_MODE, UNLOAD_CONSISTENCY, UNLOAD_OUTPUT_WIRING, MIXED_SUBSTITUTION.
Program	The COBOL program, or the copybook where the finding is about one.
Summary	The finding in one sentence, written to be read on its own.
Evidence	Why this is claimed — the conditions that conflict, the two declarations that differ, the caller that made the paragraph unreachable. A finding nobody can check is a finding nobody will act on.
Where	The paragraph, section or data item the finding is in.
Source path	The file, so the finding can be opened.

Source files that had results

org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults

Source files that were modified by the recipe run.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults

Column	Description
Source path before the run	The source path of the file before the run. null when a source file was created during the run.
Source path after the run	A recipe may modify the source path. This is the path after the run. null when a source file was deleted during the run.
Parent of the recipe that made changes	In a hierarchical recipe, the parent of the recipe that made a change. Empty if this is the root of a hierarchy or if the recipe is not hierarchical at all.
Recipe that made changes	The specific recipe that made a change.
Estimated time saving	An estimated effort that a developer to fix manually instead of using this recipe, in unit of seconds.
Cycle	The recipe cycle in which the change was made.

Source files that had search results

org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults

Search results that were found during the recipe run.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults

Column	Description
Source path of search result before the run	The source path of the file with the search result markers present.
Source path of search result after run the run	A recipe may modify the source path. This is the path after the run. null when a source file was deleted during the run.
Result	The trimmed printed tree of the LST element that the marker is attached to.
Description	The content of the description of the marker.
Recipe that added the search marker	The specific recipe that added the Search marker.

Source files that errored on a recipe

org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors

The details of all errors produced by a recipe run.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors

Column	Description
Source path	The file that failed to parse.
Recipe that made changes	The specific recipe that made a change.
Stack trace	The stack trace of the failure.

Recipe performance

org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats

Statistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.

Export after a run

mod study . --last-recipe-run \
  --data-table org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats

Column	Description
The recipe	The recipe whose stats are being measured both individually and cumulatively.
Source file count	The number of source files the recipe ran over.
Source file changed count	The number of source files which were changed in the recipe run. Includes files created, deleted, and edited.
Cumulative scanning time (ns)	The total time spent across the scanning phase of this recipe.
Max scanning time (ns)	The max time scanning any one source file.
Cumulative edit time (ns)	The total time spent across the editing phase of this recipe.
Max edit time (ns)	The max time editing any one source file.