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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank.

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank. This is the only way we will be able to run ADDI containerized.
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 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 ...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 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.
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

JCL includes could be visible on Analyze client for analysis

Hi Team, If there is a option to analyze JCL include usage on JCL's and INCLUDE's usage on JOBS will be more beneficial for a project team. Currently we can anaylze procs, programs, datasets usage in jobs...please amend the process to analyze INCL...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Option to download list / Summary of all programs in impact analysis report.

Currently Impact analysis report option, search in files option gives the list of programs in CSV format where the program name is embedded with the complete path of the program. Instead would like to see the list of programs/modules impacted whic...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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