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    An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

    When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.
    6 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

    Improve synchronization process

    Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...
    17 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

    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...
    over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

    Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

    We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...
    20 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

    A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

    This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

    If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Provide capability to easily find a CICS transaction without knowing which project contains it

    In large shops with a large application inventory, a developer trying to understand a transaction flow in CICS; would need to be able to easily find that transaction and generate a Transaction call graph. Today, the developer has to know which pro...
    2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

    Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

    When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Disable SA system shutdown automation

    When a system is closed, SA automation jumps in on autotask AUTSHUT. This uses PHASE1,2 and 3 customisation, but doesn't allow the functionality to be turned off. We have our own system shutdown processing, and had and shutdown issue, then found t...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

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