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Search results: Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

Implement field expansion for ADABAS the same way as DB2

This feature is very important to analyze the impact that we have on the ADABAS database side, the same way we have from DB2. This will improve the view from the Application overall architecture, in order to give a full coverage for the users and ...
30 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Under review

ADDI report performance improvement

As discussed, the time required to generate the reports appears to depend largely on the overall size and depth of the report data. If the internal M&T development team can manage the report scope by breaking it into smaller chunks, the proces...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Under review

Increase AD flowchart Resolution for better readability

In the current latest releases(AD 6.1.3 or AD 6.1.4), users can't export the flowchart or call graph images from the analyze client into proper readable format. Indeed AD allows to visualize and navigate the generated artifacts within the eclipse ...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Under review

Support detection of IMS DB usage in Assembler programs when DL/I calls are performed indirectly via wrapper modules and dynamic calls.

Currently, IMS/DB Usage and Logical Usage reports rely on detecting statement occurrences within program source. In environments using Assembler, it is common to encapsulate IMS access through wrapper modules and dynamic calls (e.g., program → DBA...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions Under review

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 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Not under consideration

Enhance Impact Analysis to display the original parent context of the selected variable

When COBOL variables share the same name across different parent structures, Impact Analysis in AD Analyze Client results do not indicate the original parent context from which the report was started. As analysis expands across structures, this ma...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions Under review

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...
2 months 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...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Support Client certificate (mTLS) when fetching z/OS connect info

Increase security by supporting Data Collector to authenticate towards z/OS connect with Client Certificate. Today only basic auth with userid/password is supported. Our shop have z/OS connect setup with Client Certificate only preventing us from ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Missing Components reports need to check across ALL projects for element before marking them as missing.

Mainframe shops share many types of elements especially sub-programs. in my experience Batch application on an LPAR usually share a load library. We need ADDI to be able to look across a list of selected projects before marking an element as missing.
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze Not under consideration

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