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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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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 ...
15 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI

Client requested the enhancement to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI.He wants to accelerate understanding by comparing with alias in Japanese specification document and ADDI.If t...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Operational CPU and Sysplex should be selectable

Currently when Retrieving Operational for a new project the CPU Sysplex data is automatically downloaded, it would be nice if this was added to the Build Configuration as an option in case it needs to be refreshed or if we do not want that informa...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Filtering Operational Information

The Operational information for a large enterprise environment is quite large and much of the data it contains is not relevant from an application level. e.g. The DB2 data tries to download the entire DB2 catalogue which contains not only APPL rel...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

API for admin dashbord

To improve automation capability setting up, creating and managing projects that in normal case require manual intervention through the dashboard. I propose to add a api to do the same tasks through some kind of api (http, config-file or cli) to b...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD lacks inter-relation analysis capability from java service connected to mainframe.

Proposed idea: 1. In current AD 6.0.1/6.1.x all artifacts loaded from z/OS into application discovery on windows would enable user to analyze the inter-module relationships/interdependencies in mainframe alone but it didn't show the holistic view ...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration