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Application Discovery

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Field Expansion Report to show variables PIC clauses and indicate potential truncation

To add additional column to Field Expansion Impact Analysis Report to show impacted variables PIC clauses and to highlight potential truncation of the impacted variable with respect to the variable under consideration.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD connect to Endevor

Need support engagement and documentation to set up AD connect from windows server based ADDI build configuration to zOS MF Endevor to auto/upload code libraries to not only ADDI server, but to any server or file share required. Ideally, this acti...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Annotate ADDI Graphs

Provide the ability to annotate a chart - especially a CA7 Scheduler graph - with lines and comments.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Data Flow Diagram in RAA is missing from ADDI

Data flow : Data flow diagrams for data element or DB2 column used in a program) the way IDz implemented that is to build the RAA in-memory data model from IDz's program parse AST --and-- than call RAA functionality in JARs provided to walk the in...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

SQL Evaluation in IBM ADDI

Product IBM AD/ADDI Requested functionality: a more detailed analysis of SQL statements.Currently the evaluation is not considering nested statements.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Warning program not defined

No documentation on the root cause of a message, not description of the impact of message and no description on how to fix the problem. [21-02-2019 12:03] Can't find referred program AAXXPGM for transaction XXAA, in group AAXXGRP.

Support for ESP scheduler

Support for ESP scheduler
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Customer BNYM - AD check report functionality should support "Retrieve Operational Info" of CICS configuration

Currently the AD build client Project check function does not use information retrieved via "retrieve operational info" of the CICS configuration.- This information is used for analysis purpose only. The AD project check function in the build clie...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Sub-Program Calls not correctly resolved

Call graph resolution does not work completely when a constant variable defined in working storage is used for a call. Calls are shown as "Unknown Program" in that case.Good is that the calls are listed. But the deeper level information of those "...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration