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Application Discovery

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Sort by discovered type

Add a feature to discover the file type via the content and sort the types into the proper folders for building.

Provide consistent and complete ADDI database configuration steps.

In the current ADDI database configuration, information is all over the place and unable to provide consolidated precise steps to client DBA's. Here is some of the key improvements looking for : 1. Single page detailing databases required for all ...

String search does not work for special characters like single quote (and some other)

When trying to search for string f.e. PROGRAM search works fine. However if we would like to do search for 'PROGRAM' string search does not give any result. The same thing is when using regex search [\x27]PROGRAM[\x27]. This is important as someti...

improve performance for large projects by days during MAKE request for API resolution (HDI) step

Currently our project MAKE takes days to complete. This is due to AD build process calling the API resolution (HDI - Hogan Discovery Interface from DXC) for each source element in the project even if it has not changed. This takes us about 58 hour...

List of Control-M elements

In the tab "Explore … (project name)", we can't see the list of available project resources on Control-M type. Our need is to have the list of Control-M elements in this tab (like other types, IWS for example).

MQ support when called from subroutine

Please enhance ADDI to support MQ when variables involved in MQ statement are declared and resolved in one program and MQ calls is made from another program

Request for usage status acquisition

To evaluate the use of ADDI,I want to list who is using it by login status and function.If it is "Application Discovery Audit", the login status cannot be known.About some functions that are considered to be used frequently ("Search in file" and "...

Assembler Macro expansion feature

We are told that IBM is working on a Macro expansion feature and that this will be available in a future AD release.We do not have any visibility of this future release so we are raising a RFE to track. AD works fine with assembler INCLUDES but no...

Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...

Assembler LARL support

LARL modifies a register which would mean a change in program flow. AD currently does not recognize this syntax.