BMC Compuware Abend-AID vs BMC Compuware Xpediter comparison

Abend-AID, Compuware’s mainframe application failure resolution and fault management solution, enables developers to reduce the tedious and time-consuming task of manually cross-referencing pages of recorded application memory information with pages of application code to understand why an application failure occurred.

Using Abend-AID, developers can:

• Identify errors and verify test results through a directory of all fault activity
• View the text of a statement causing an error and the contents of its related fields
• Clearly display data in storage and data being transferred between programs
• Identify field lengths and index values for multi-dimensional tables
• View source code for program logic
• Get richer, more complete insight into mainframe issues through an integration with Syncsort Ironstream^® including a Splunk^®app to help with analysis

Xpediter is Compuware’s mainframe application interactive debugging tool. It also offers code coverage for mainframe application analysis.

Xpediter enables developers to get into an interactive test session with minimal effort and quickly move applications into production with greater confidence.

With Xpediter, developers can:

• See and control source code execution line by line
• Fully understand what each individual instruction is doing
• See and control all data variables within a test session
• Resolve production abends without impacting program logic or risking data corruption
• Monitor and control execution with added flexibility
• Use Code Coverage to view documented proof that code has been executed
• Trap transactions initiated by a remote source or a non-terminal task
• Gain full control of testing
• Create conditions during test to ensure execution of all code in a program
• Work alongside other developers who are debugging application code in the same or different logical IMS systems through Xpediter’s integration with COPE IMS virtualization technology