Strobe MVS for Sysplex Language Support

Strobe speaks many languages

The Strobe language feature products* extend the measurement and reporting capabilities of Strobe MVS for Sysplex enabling IT professionals to more easily analyze and improve the performance of OS/390 applications written in a wide variety of languages.

Capabilities

Strobe Language Support

Pinpoints Inefficient User Code

Reports the CPU usage of individual program statements.
Identifies source code text and statement number associated with the program locations using CPU resources.

COBOL PL/I
C/C++ or SAS/C
VisualAge for Java**
FORTRAN
CA-Optimizer
CSP
NATURAL
COOL:Gen
Assembler
ADS/O

Identifies Excessive Use of System Services

Identifies the individual program statements that call resource consumptive language-specific library subroutines and runtime routines.

Supplies function descriptors for language-specific library subroutines and LE runtime routines

COBOL PL/I
C/C++
LE
VisualAge for Java
CSP
NATURAL
COOL:Gen
ADS/O

*Language support supplied by the Strobe COBOL Feature, the Strobe PL/I Feature, the Strobe C Feature, the Strobe Java Feature, the Strobe FORTRAN Feature, the Strobe CSP Feature, the Strobe ADABAS/NATURAL Feature, the Strobe COOL:Gen Feature, and the Strobe CA-Optimizer Feature.

**Source code text is not available for VisualAge for Java.