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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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

ADDI should be able to identify 3rd party software programs and identify them as UTILIY instead of Load Module. RAA had the capability to identify 3rd party mainframe tools like Easytrieve, Infogix, etc.

This would make it clear to someone doing analysis that no source code would exist for this progam.
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 0 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...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 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 ...
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 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.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI cannot generate metadata for COBOL stored procedures

Ford has hundreds of COBOL/Db2 Stored procedures. They would like to modernize these stored procedures using Watsonx Code Assistant for Z(WCAZ), but since ADDI is unable to generate metadata for Stored Procedures, WCAZ is unable to refactor or tra...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Support for type when syncronizing configuration members

When using ADDI ADDI syncronization feature its possible to add Configuration/IMST_PGM as Virtual Folder/Type but when it's added to build client it's always added with default type CSD. This means that every member added thru syncronization featu...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration