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Application Discovery

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PL/I Preprocessor Support required

PL/I Preprocessor Support required

PL/I Macro Support required

PL/I Macro Support required

Graphs can be exported to files in editable formats.

Graphs can be output to files that are editable in vector graphics format.Microsoft Excel, Word, Visio formats are one of most desirable ones.

Provide detailed descriptions of all AD Reports

Provide detailed descriptions of all AD Reports either as part of the documentation or in help files. This should also be part of the training.

AD to provide full support for JAVA

Provide complete support for JAVA for z/OS as well as Distributed.

Maximum number of artifacts reached

Project folders have a maximum number of artifacts that it can contain.

COBOL pre-processor

For many core banking application, they use COBOL pre-processor, they have user-defined COBOL operator which will be handled during compile. AD can not support such pre-processor, so it can not get enough information for application understanding ...

Git support in AD

RFE opened on behalf of BNPP BNPP would like to load all the necessary software artifacts from Git (source code, configuration files) instead of loading them from z/OS (Endevor, subsystems definitions, etc...). As Git is going to be main referenti...

Check feature in command line

We need to have a automatic check in command line because currenlty, all checking are manual, so it's too long for making all the check one by one for every project for the administrator.

"Using Exec DLI" settings option (Build Client) in command line

We need to have "Using Exec DLI" settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with this option. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too l...