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Application Discovery

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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...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD lacks inter-relation analysis capability from java service connected to mainframe.

Proposed idea: 1. In current AD 6.0.1/6.1.x all artifacts loaded from z/OS into application discovery on windows would enable user to analyze the inter-module relationships/interdependencies in mainframe alone but it didn't show the holistic view ...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support native SOCKS proxy configuration

With the integration to WatsonX Code Assistant, connection to DB2 on Cloud is needed. Often the ADDI server is required to be on-premises for security reasons and this is inside a firewalled environment. If the software contained native support fo...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph for DL1 resource can be improved for certain ROLB scenario.

When IMS online program has the direct ROLB call without being accessing database segments, then AD call graph is shown as if program access multiple segments from the DBD. It looks to be little misleading from user aspect though the order of IMS-...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to automate fetch of PgmModuleMap.txt

Hi When using different names for loadmodule and first program it's possible to map those with PgmModuleMap.txt ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.1?topic=tasks-adding-files-project-folders ). To be able to automate create/update of the textfi...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add Favorites or add the ability to reorganize in the graphs/reports of AD in IDz

While working in AD through IDz, it would be nice to have favorites for a user's top repetitive reports/graphs or the ability to reposition the list of reports/graphs. If a user constantly uses the same reports/graphs, this would be faster for the...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

identify PSB programs in PARM and display SAS program names in Job Usage

Here is a summary of this problem: In total there are 15 PROCs calling a PSB XXXXXXXX, the pattern goes like this: PSB1=XXXXXXXX, //STEP04 EXEC PGM=********,REGION=XXXXX, // PARM=(BMP,&PSB1,,,,C00000,,1,'&CKPTID',1, Out of the 15 members o...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

AD analyse client and AD server shall coexist with different release levels

Requirement is that the AD analyse client and AD server can coexist with different release levels very much like IDz have implemented their support allowing +-2 release difference. Having this will let us upgrade the server and then gradually upgr...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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