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Missing Components reports need to check across ALL projects for element before marking them as missing.

Mainframe shops share many types of elements especially sub-programs. in my experience Batch application on an LPAR usually share a load library. We need ADDI to be able to look across a list of selected projects before marking an element as missing.

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

SAS Program Usage Analysis in IBM Application Discovery

Our mainframe environment includes significant SAS batch processing for critical business functions (financial analytics, actuarial reporting, data transformations). Currently, IBM Application Discovery cannot analyze SAS programs to extract: Prog...

Enable project details on Analyze client without accessing AD Dashboard

Hi Team, I have 2 projects ( Main & Resilience ) in Production server. Both the projects are now available on Analyze client at any time . if i want to enable resilience project to be visible in analyze client when i do Make process on Main pr...

Replace missing icon with new icon for cross application projects

Replace missing icon on the IDZ window with new icon when object is in the cross application list. this will help with looking for the correct missing object in a project.

Add a summary report for projects in IDZ

On the IDZ project list window add a summary report for the project selected. must have the following information number per object type total number of missing objects per type excluding the cross application objects number per cross application ...

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration