Rocket® AS Application Development and Business Intelligence Tools

Designed for IBM® zSystems®.

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With Rocket® Analytics Server (AS), you can quickly access, analyze, and visualize IBM Z® data, gaining actionable insights and embedding them into your business applications and workflows.

Rocket AS for IBM® zSystems® provides rapid application development tools, data querying, reporting, and visualization from sources like Db2® and VSAM. It includes 3270 and Eclipse-based user interfaces for developing and running applications.

With rich commands and functions, AS provides powerful data update, manipulation, and discovery capabilities.

Available in 17 languages.

Create simple queries to multi-dimensional data analyses.

Leverage statistical, linear programming and modeling, and project management capabilities. 

Build custom procedures to automate data analysis and repetitive tasks.

Build custom client/server solutions.

Create charts, pictographs, illustrations, and icons.

Produce ad-hoc and scheduled reports.

PC integration and data population.

What is Rocket AS?

Rocket AS is an integrated BI and analytics suite providing comprehensive access to IBM zSystems data. It supports relational sources like Db2 (local or remote) and non-relational sources like VSAM and external files, enabling you to transform data into actionable insights, regardless of its source.

It operates as an "intelligent server" for multi-platform clients. The extensive AS 4GL Language application development capabilities enable the creation of world-class IBM Z applications usable by 3270 and Windows® users alike.

AS covers a broad range of tasks, from basic queries to multi-dimensional data analyses, with robust statistical tools, linear programming, modeling, and project management features. It enables custom procedures to automate tasks, streamlining workflows and expediting tasks for you, your department, and your organization.

Multiple charts showing key details of z/OS

Turn data into useable information

Create customized solutions for client or server

Produce formal reports on an ad-hoc or scheduled basis, from simple inquiries to complex analyses. Then, leverage AS text processing to transform data into readable, professional documents. AS also enables visualizations with charts, pictographs, illustrations, and icons. All of this can be done on your mainframe or PC.

AS offers powerful development tools accessible from various clients, including Rocket® AS Multiplatform and mainframe clients. You can also integrate your preferred PC applications using one of AS’s integration capabilities. Additionally, AS supports information exchange through ODBC, HTML, CSV, DDE, FTP, Clipboard, and ActiveX.

create readable, professional documents

AS and PCs: The best of both worlds

Combine AS with PC software to take advantage of both environments. Select and analyze data to give PC users precisely what they need, then deliver that information directly to your preferred PC package. From there, you can use industry-standard Windows, Linux, Unix, and web products as clients for the information.

With the many PC integration capabilities—including .Net, Java, ODBC, and ActiveX—you can build custom-made client/server solutions. AS gives you simple ways to prompt for parameters on the PC, produce information at the mainframe, and populate your PC application immediately with the results. The solutions you can create are nearly limitless.

What's new in Rocket Analytics Server

Rocket® AS 7.2 replaces all earlier levels of Rocket AS and all versions of the IBM® Application System program product (5648-092).

This release adds a number of major enhancements including:

AS administration control center

  • New interactive tool to enable system administrators to more easily manage an AS installation.
  • Provides the ability to identify AS users and application objects being used and graphically analyze AS table space usage.

Table access logging

Easily identify which parts of AS applications are being used to better utilize resources and to simplify maintenance tasks.

REXX procedure capability

An AS procedure can now be designated a REXX Procedure, enabling it to contain entirely REXX language, thus helping non-AS developers to be involved in writing AS applications.

New RDV command to interface with the Rocket® Data Virtualization

A new command that enables AS applications to easily access even more mainframe data, from Adabas to SMF records, bringing the power of AS to more data.

RSTATS synonym to use AS with the R Statistics language, extending AS tools to give more choices for analyzing data

  • RDV is a new command that allows AS applications to easily access nearly any mainframe data, from Adabas to SMF records bringing the power of AS to more data.
  • CREATE DATA command, @ALLCATS option to extract catalog data from all user’s application codes.
  • ASADMIN LIST command, CSV output option.
  • EDOPTIONS SQL syntax coloring in Query tables.
  • MD5 function: Returns the MD5 hash value for the given character string.
  • CPU and MSU information added to key expiry warning message.
  • DIAGNOSE TRACE SORT output to DASAUDIT extended to include more information about the sort process.

Version 7.1

Version 7.1 of the Rocket Analytics Server (AS) also contains many major enhancements, including:

  • Language editor syntax highlighting.
  • Ability to write tables by using DT functions.
  • The ORDERBY command enables the order of rows to be set without creating a new OUT table.
  • DEBUG in Report Command tables.
  • Multidimensional session variables.
  • Alphanumeric column and variable limit increased from 254 to 1000.
  • Maximum row size increased to 32,000 bytes.
  • New TRANSFER command for the exchange of several tables between mainframe and multiplatform AS servers.

These enhancements, including the multiplatform version of AS, significantly magnify the value for a customer’s investment in the AS Family.

Additional enhancements:

  • Complex queries can be automatically rerouted to IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS.
  • LOWDATE can now additionally be defined as an offset in relation to the current date.
  • More detail is provided when querying ASTRAN files.
  • New CLEAR parameter provides a copy of a table without data.
  • ON ERROR control for nested procedures.
  • New MESSAGE function to display a simple window as an alternative to SHOWPAN for messages.
  • New ADD… functions provide date/time arithmetic capability.

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