Global Health Service Company
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Topaz
- Compuware Source Code Download plugin
- Topaz CLI
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
Tech Stack
- COBOL
- IMS/DB/DC
- Db2
- HP Fortify
- SonarQube for COBOL plugin
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
The customer is a Global Health Service Company (GHSC) that manages an enterprise-wide DevOps initiative, including mainframe applications teams. The company has a mission-critical claims processing application that is large and comprises COBOL, batch, IMS/DB/DC, and Db2. The company performs security and code syntax scans on their distributed and mobile apps and wanted to duplicate that process for the mainframe teams. They also wanted to manage mainframe and distributed code releases in a similar manner to provide quick feedback of issues to development and give management a common dashboard for analyzing application code quality.
The Challenge
The Global Health Service Company (GHSC) was managing an enterprise-wide DevOps initiative that included mainframe applications teams. The company wanted to execute COBOL source code security and syntax checking for every mainframe product release from its claims processing team. The company performs security and code syntax scans on their distributed and mobile apps and needed to duplicate that process for the mainframe teams. The company also needed the ability to manage mainframe and distributed code releases in a similar manner. This would provide quick feedback of issues to development and give management a common dashboard (SonarQube) for analyzing application code quality. These scans are critical for Continuous Integration practices for the enterprise DevOps effort.
The Solution
The mission-critical claims processing application is large, comprising COBOL, batch, IMS/DB/DC and Db2. During a Topaz POC in early 2017, Compuware demonstrated to the GHSC team how a Jenkins plugin can extract released COBOL source from the application to a SonarQube server for security scanning with HP Fortify and syntax scanning with the SonarQube for COBOL plugin. A DevOps specialist and a consultant from the GHSC worked with Compuware Product Manager Steve Kansa and Field Technical Support representative Andy Jepeal to implement the Compuware Source Code Download plugin along with the Topaz CLI on the Jenkins server where the SonarQube and HP Fortify scans are executed and reported to a SonarQube dashboard. Steve assisted in the development of the Jenkins pipeline scripts necessary to perform these extracts.
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