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Application Discovery

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IBM Application Discovery CICS Interface

Currently in order for the AD z agent to read the CICS CSD, the CICS SDFHLOAD library has to be added to the AD STC steplib. Because the AD loadlib is APF authorized, this forces the user to ALSO APF authorize the SDFHLOAD library which is NOT som...

Allow CICS BMS Maps to show

Client uses an STL Script for the CICS BMS Maps and they require certain BMS Maps to show in the Application Discovery Build Client.

Request for the ability for a single program to have a single program to have multiple "named" queues

Client is requesting that Application Discovery team to implement theability for a single program to have a single program to have multiple"named"queues assuming that I can associate each queue to a unique cobolvariable

Indicator on folder member for those with / without errors

On the members in each folder, provide an indicator showing if the member built with or without error.

Put full conditional expression on decision box in flowchart.

Place full conditional expression on decision boxes of flowchart.It is necessary for both analyze client flowchart graph view and it's output file.

Selecting programs for Program Inventory Report.

Instead of selecting programs from the list in Explore Tab in Analyze client, users can create Program Inventory Report on a list of programs that are specified in an importing file.It is also desirable that importing file can be a CSV file export...

Dataset Flow graphs displays attributes on data flow links.

In dataset flow graph, only datasets and data flow links are displayed.There shall be printed a set of Job, Job step, and program name on each data flow links.

Find / Display / Zip Log Files

Provide a feature in each of the AD components that will look at the installation path for that component and display all existing log files Allow the user to check a box to have the log file zipped and stored at a specified location

AD to support TLS 1.2

Customer advises that AD does not support TLS 1.2

Increase the performance on long running Reports

Reports that have a high number of levels to resolve take a long time to presents - in excess of 7 hours of run time.