Synon/PE

Delivering High-Performance Applications

• Problems Synon/PE Was Designed To Solve
• Product Description
• Features & Benefits
• Reports Produced
• Technical Specifications

Problems Synon/PE Was Designed To Solve

No matter how well designed or technically advanced an application appears, if it doesn't perform according to end-user expectations then it is unlikely to make an impact. Even when involving end users in the development cycle, it is still possible to end up with an application that could look- and act - better.

To ensure that developers locate potential performance problems during design and construction, Synon presents a new tool that optimizes application designs, improves application performance and increases the utilization of AS/400 system resources ... Synon/PE (Performance Expert).

Product Description

A knowledge-based system that provides AS/400 developers with information that can be used to optimize the run-time performance of Synon/2E generated applications, Synon/PE is invaluable in determining performance during the development process and can be used to fine tune Synon/2E applications after they are in production.

Synon/2E is a very powerful and flexible appliction development environment. With Synon/2E, customers can design and generate comprehensive business applications that support a broad spectrum of industry requirements and fully exploit the power of the AS/400.

Unlike performance tools that analyze running applications, Synon/PE does not need to observe an application in operation to suggest improvements. Instead, Synon/PE uses the specifications stored in the Synon/2E Design Model to make performance tuning recommendations.

Features & Benefits

Synon/PE, developed by Synon Professional Services directly with customer input, helps improve the quality of Synon development projects. Using this accumulated expertise, Synon/PE reviews and analyzes Synon/2E Design Models. It then recommends which OS/400 implementation options will optimize the use of AS/400 facilities.

Synon/PE provides information about:

• Changes to improve application performance
• Changes to improve resource utilization
• The number of design objects specified in an application design model
• The consistency of design constructs across the entire model
• Changes to further increase programmer productivity

With Synon/PE, you tune once in the model before production, which is much more cost effective than fine-tuning after the application is in use.

Synon/PE takes snapshots of the Design Model and retains them in analysis files. Snapshots can be stored for the entire duration of a development project. Using the model snapshot, Synon/PE produces reports which make recommendation to improve the performance and consistency of your applications.

Reports Produced

Synon/PE produces many reports including:

• Performance Suggestion Reports, which identify implementation options that are known to cause performance fluctuations when found in large numbers inside an application design.
• Performance Warning Reports, which are designed to identify implementation options that can cause applications to perform poorly. Adjusting these specifications can make significant improvements in run time performance.
• Model Statistics Reports, which can directly identify problems with model inconsistency that can reduce programmer productivity and affect the look and feel of Synon generated applications.
• Inquiry Reports, which provide ad hoc ability that makes it possible to search for groupings or exceptions without having to code queries over the analysis files. The function inquiry report provides the ability to print a tree diagram for a function.

"Synon/PE enabled us to focus on improvements which we could make with minimum effort and allowed us to enhance our systems to run optimally on the AS/400. Overall, Synon/PE played an important role in our run-time enhancement program."
—Dick Testa, Cable TV Services Division, EDS Corporation

Technical Specifications*

• Any model AS/400 except Y10
• OS/400
• Synon/2E

*Please contact Synon for information on current releases supported.