Overview:

Harkins Audit Software, Inc. develops, markets, and supports program auditing software for the IBM System i. The distribution auditing software is the patented Real-Time Program Audit (RTPA) software, which provides full electronic program auditing of all executing program statements, the data executed, and the moment of time each statement is executed to an audit journal spool file or a disk file, without programmer intervention.

The Harkins Audit Software, Inc. web site www.harkinsaudit.com provides extensive information and examples of the Real-Time Program Audit (RTPA) software including Camtasia videos of the auditing, The Real-Time Program Audit (RTPA) Users Manual and a FREE 90 day trial download of the RTPA software for the IBM System i. The RTPA download for the IBM System i supports program auditing in COBOL, RPG, and Control Language Program (CLP). The web site download also contains an RTPA audit query product, RTPA Query which brings together all the executing statements of multiple COBOL, RPG and CLP sub-programs in a logical application together by the moment of time the statement was executed.

The key objective of the Real-Time Program Audit (RTPA) software is to provide an automatic and complete and permanent audit record of all executing programs, all executing program statements, all data processed and the moment of time each statement was executed, regardless of the atructure of the programs or subprograms. This is like a video camera recording of all program execution, and allows even the most complex program execution to be easily observed and understood.

The Real-Time-Program (RTPA) software utilizes the existing IBM compilers and source programs, and creates a copy of the source program with complete program self auditing capability.

Offerings and Services:

The Real-Time Program Audit (RTPA) software for IBM System i is available for COBOL (COBOL/400 and ILE COBOL), RPG (RPG 400 and ILE RPG), and CLP including RTPA Query as a download from the www.harkinsaudit.com web site. This is the licensed RTPA software and allows a FREE 90 day trial. The RTPA Users Manual for COBOL, RPG, CLP and RTPA Query is available for download from www.harkinsaudit.com.

Many Camtasia videos are avaliable at www.harkinsaudit.com which illustrate RTPA auditing examples and auditing techniques, including how RTPA auditing can dramatically improve programmer capability, programmer productivity, and simplify programming and programming support.

Harkins Audit Software, Inc. also offers optional advanced RTPA product support, education, and consulting to the IBM System i ecosystem.

Hardware Platforms and Operating Systems Supported:

IBM System i with IBM supported operating system releases (currently V5R3 through V6R1)

Geographical Coverage:

Worldwide

Additional Information:

Paul H. Harkins, president and CTO of Harkins Audit Software, Inc, welcomes emails at paulhark@aol.com or phone calls at 1-610-431-1755 USA.

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