Summary: information about the Report generation option available in CAST Imaging ≥ 2.7.0.

Introduction

The Report generation option provides the means to export a variety of raw data to CSV, XLSX, and JSON - available reports are listed below:

Note that the reports may take a long time to generate if the current application is very large.

Data Sources

Relation between Objects And Data sources

For all links between objects and data sources (i.e. tables/views) available in the Application, the following information is provided:

Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Object File Name
Data Source Name
Data Source Full Name
Data Source Type
Access Link Type (Use, Access, Reylon etc.)

Relation between DB tables And DB objects

For all links between database tables and other database objects (such as procedures) available in the Application, the following information is provided:

DB Table Name
DB Table Full Name
DB Object Name
DB Object Full Name
DB Object Type,
Access Link Type (Use, Access, Reylon, Refer etc.)

Relation between Data sources and Transactions

For all data sources (i.e. tables/views) available in the application, information about the transactions they are involved in is provided:

Data Source Name
Data Source Full Name
Data Source Type
Transaction Entry Name
Transaction Entry Full Name
Transaction Entry Type
Access Link Types (Use, Access, Reylon, Refer etc.)
Object File Name

Number of Transactions per Data source

For all data sources (i.e. tables/views) available in the application, information about the number of transactions they are involved in (helping identify loosely coupled or highly coupled data sources) is provided:

Data Source Name
Data Source Full Name
Data Source Type
Access Link Type
Total (links)

Transactions

Relation between Transactions And Objects

For each transaction available in the Application, the following information is provided:

Transaction Entry Name
Transaction Entry Full Name
Transaction Entry Type
Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Object Role in Transaction (startpoint/endpoint)
Object File Name

Relation between Transactions And Data sources

For each transaction available in the Application, the following information is provided:

Transaction Entry Name
Transaction Entry Full Name
Transaction Entry Type
Data Source Name
Data Source Full Name
Data Source Type
Access Links Count (number of times the data source is accessed)
Access Link Type (Use, Access, Reylon etc.)
Object File Name

Transaction's Complexity

For each transaction available in the Application, the following complexity related information is provided:

Transaction Entry Name
Transaction Entry Full Name
Transaction Entry Type
CC (Cyclomatic Complexity) value
IC (Integration Complexity) value
EC (Essential Complexity) value
Total object count value
LoC (lines of code) value
Object File Name

See How Complexity metrics are calculated by CAST AIP for more information about the complexity values provided.

References

Most referenced Objects

For each object available in the Application, the following information is provided:

Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Object File Name
Module Name
References Count (this value corresponds to the number of objects calling the object)

Most referenced Data Objects

For each database object available in the Application, the following information is provided:

Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Number Of Calls (this value corresponds to the number of objects calling the object)

Application

Relation between Modules

Lists all links (and their type) between any modules available in the Application. The following information is provided:

Source Module Name
Source Object Name
Source Object Full Name
Source Object Type
Target Module Name
Target Object Name
Target Object Full Name
Target Object Type
Link Type
Object File Name

Relation between Modules and Transactions

Lists all transactions available in the Application and the Module they are attached to. The following information is provided:

Module Name
Transaction Entry Name
Transaction Entry Full Name
Transaction Entry Type
Object File Name

Module's Complexity

For each module available in the Application, the following complexity related information is provided:

Module Name
CC (Cyclomatic Complexity) value
IC (Integration Complexity) value
EC (Essential Complexity) value
Total object count value
LoC (lines of code) value
Object File Name

See How Complexity metrics are calculated by CAST AIP for more information about the complexity values provided.

Relation between Modules and Objects

Lists all objects available in the Application and the Module they are attached to. The following information is provided:

Module Name
Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Object File Name

Lines of Code Per Technology Artifact

Provides line of code (LOC) information per technology artifact type. The following information is provided:

Object Type
Technology
Object Count
Lines Of Code

Added/Modified objects within the application compared to the previous version

Provides information about all the added/modified objects within the application compared to the previous version. The following information is provided:

Object Name
Object Full Name
Object Type
Object Status
Object File Name
Number of Callers Added
Number of Callers Unchanged
Number of Callers Modified
Number of Callees Added
Number of Callees Unchanged
Number of Callees Modified

Note that the count of callers/callees (Modified/Added/Unchanged) is determined by the value of the status property of the caller/callee objects during the application import process.

Accessing the option

The Report option is available in the top left action menu all scopes and at all levels:

When clicked, the following dialog box is displayed:

1	Choose the type of data you would like to generate a report for: Data Sources > Objects, Database objects, Transactions Transactions References Application > Modules, Transactions, Objects
2	Will flash blue indicating that the chosen report is being generated. Also shows the queue of reports waiting for generation (and their generation status) when multiple reports are requested at the same time (or one after the other):
2	Closes the dialog box.
3	Click to choose the report output format: CSV XLSX JSON As soon as you click the chosen output format, the report will be generated and automatically downloaded in your browser:

Technical notes

Reports are generated in a batch of 100,000 records to improve performance.
For XLSX reports, 1 million records are added per sheet in the Excel file.
For JSON file reports, if there are more than 100,000 records, then the JSON report will not be structured.

User Guide - Reports