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Application Discovery

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Counts when a Build Is Stopped Manually

Customer has noticed that and Error and Warnings count is not issued when a Build is stopped manually.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Persistant CHECK Report

Similar to a Build log file, save the results of the CHECK with a date and time stamp. Currently the CHECK report is overwritten.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Can VMWARE images be used to clone Application Discovery to another VMWARE server?

Customer has VMWARE managing Application Discovery (AD)Clients, AD batch server/graphdb/config server, and MS SQL Server. Customer wants to utilized VMWARE backups to clone AD to other VMWARE servers.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Customer BNYM - Partitioned Dataset Source for a Project: wildcarding as a way to subset PDS source

AD 505.0 Customer: Bank of New York Mellon Customer installation uses a single PDS for JCL for the entire installation. Assigning this single PDS to a project is not desirable. Customer, who has worked in several large financial institutions, asse...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS transactions are contained in variable... Need a way to map to transaction name via csv file

Customer has a large CICS application that uses COBOL variables for CICS transaction names. We need a way via csv file, similar to dynamic calls that map variable names to programs, to map cobol variables to specific CICS transaction ids. AD suppo...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Selecting reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.

Having an option to select reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show conditional expression on conditional call and goto links in Program Flow.

To have an option to show conditions on the conditional call and conditional goto links in Program Flow graph in Analyze client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Job Flow graph can display related datasets and their attributes.

Current Job Flow graph only shows job steps.It becomes more useful to understand the structure of jobs if relations between job steps and related datasets are linked in one graph view. It is also preferable if data sets could be displayed with the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Select a job from member name.

Resource type of JCL job in Explore tab in Analyze client lists only names of collected jobs.There shall be an option to select a job from a list of names of data set members that holds it.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Set up Decision in batch

Currently, you can only manually add Decision in Build Client one by one, when you have large volume of decisions to add, there is no easier way to get these setup than using the dialog in the Build Client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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