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Application Discovery

Enable Sync Support for Check Exclude Configurations

Check Exclude appears to be one of the only Configuration file types that cannot be loaded via Synchronization, and can only be loaded in manually in the Build Client. This is problematic for users who need to load this configuration file into a l...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future 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...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future 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...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 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...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

AD - Enable automatic user group detection/association in the import users option under CCS

We have been upgrading AD system and found that CCS has an option to import only multiple users into new system. However after importing users, we need to manually select and add (using + ICON) to associate to the respective user group. This is qu...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

AD - Add new feature to export all users in the prescribed file formats(.csv or .txt) from CCS

In the current AD that we use (6.1.3-ifix1), there is no possibility to export all existing users from old server and import to the new server. As part of product upgrade, we consistently build new system in every 1.5 ~ 2 years and copy users (ctr...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Filter the graphs screen

Could it be possible to filter the screen like the graph inventory? The purpose is to get a screen that will be more fit for the users needs. It could be a good assets also for WCA4z.
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Enhancement to get correct data from ADDI tables

This is related to case TS019930590 where we are unable to get correct metadata from ADDI tables. For details please see this case. for example: Program has be below statement IF W003-PARM-FL-READ-CNT = ZERO AND END-OF-PARM-FILE-YES Using queries ...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

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