Application baseline
An organized view of programs, jobs, data stores, interfaces, and the business capabilities they support.
Comprehend
Private BetaUnderstand What You Have
Understand business capabilities, rules, dependencies, data lineage, interfaces, batch flows, and risk across your mainframe estate. Findings include supporting references to source code.
Private-Beta Product View
From source analysis to business capabilities
Comprehend organizes discovered functional areas and links them to journeys, programs, and rules. The selected view below uses demonstration data and excludes project navigation, source paths, and implementation details.
What Comprehend Delivers
Actionable intelligence that helps teams reduce manual discovery effort.
01
Application Intelligence
Identify business capabilities, rules, and processes in mainframe applications. Understand what the system does and how it supports operations.
02
Architecture & Data Flows
Visualize program structure, CICS transaction paths, JCL batch flows, DB2 and VSAM data lineage, and integration points across the estate.
03
Risk & Maintainability
Identify areas of complexity, code quality concerns, and technical debt that may affect modernization planning.
04
Business Context
Map code to business functions. See which systems support critical operations and where business logic lives.
What an Evaluation Produces
Reviewable evidence, not an automated verdict
Comprehend produces candidate findings and the source-linked evidence behind them. Your application experts review, validate, or correct those findings. The resulting deliverables preserve that distinction.
Business rule catalog
AI-assisted rule findings with supporting source references, ready for subject-matter-expert review.
Dependency and data-flow maps
Connections across programs, batch steps, transactions, files, and data stores within the agreed scope.
Validated findings log
A record that distinguishes generated findings from items your reviewers confirmed, corrected, or left open.
See an illustrative worked example
The article explains the review approach; it is not presented as customer data or a product-generated result.
Coverage Across Mainframe Technologies
Mainframe applications are systems of systems. Comprehend analyzes languages, transactions, data stores, batch flows, and interfaces together instead of treating them as isolated snippets.
COBOL
Programs & copybooks
JCL
Batch jobs & schedulers
CICS
Transactions, BMS, COMMAREA
DB2
Embedded SQL & stored procedures
IMS
IMS DB & IMS TM
VSAM
Files & GDGs
PL/I · HLASM
Legacy languages
MQ · IDMS · Adabas
Messaging & legacy data stores
Intelligence Grounded in Evidence
Findings include supporting references to source files and line numbers so teams can review the evidence.
Traceable
Findings include supporting source file and line references.
Repeatable
Repeat analysis as your codebase evolves.
Private
Private SaaS deployed in your cloud tenant, using your approved AI models. Source code and analysis remain under your control.
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