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Search results: Application Discovery

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IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...

Enhance IMS database Usage using load modules as inputs

In the current IMS database Usage function, it is showing the database's name and the structure of the segments used in a given Cobol program. However, the users run this function with a load module as an input. I would like to see the IMS databas...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration

Programs call graph do not show calls to SQL / Database modules from a Hogan COBOL programs

Programs call graph do not show calls to SQL / Database modules from a Hogan COBOL programs. Per initial analysis from DXC and IBM SME, calls that are coded through multi-level PERFORMs are not currently supported in ADDI and required addition cha...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration