Documenting COBOL/Assembler

[Antman]

Hi again,

As per previous thread about ARIS, potential client is looking at process modelling order management modules they have developed in COBOL/Assembler. At some point they want to move to SAP, but until then they have to document what's there, with potential re-platforming while they wait for SAP to arrive.

Has anyone any experience of reverse engineering tools such as Application Analyser or ..er this one Visible (with the dudes on the banner)?

Thanks,

[yasockie]

The dudes certainly look like they sniffed too much trying to figure out that COBOL stuff, other than that I do recommend you try to reverse engineer something written by yourself and see if the output is the same what you've written.
If anyone is capable of documenting the business process and rules from reverse-engineered ASM+COBOL code (which architecture by the way x86?) then he is Neo and we all live in matrix.

[Antman]

point taken, I have to reverse engineer my own handwriting.

[cojak]

If it's COBOL + ASM it's probably not even re-entrant.

These tools may be able to glean the basics but I'm with the Neo/Matrix comparison...

[darmstadt]

If it's COBOL + ASM it's probably not even re-entrant.

These tools may be able to glean the basics but I'm with the Neo/Matrix comparison...

He hasn't said what platform but if its mainframe based then, yes they could well probably be re-entrant particularly if Enterprise COBOL or HLASM