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AD Cross Application Service should be enabled for DB2 on z/OS

ADDI has the capability to analyze Cross Applications. Unfortunately this feature is not supported for DB2 on z/OS. We would like to have the feature implemented for DB2 on z/OS as well.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Password encryption on dex.yaml

Noticed that in dex.yaml the LDAP bind password is plain text . We should never use plain text password which is GIS violation. Please provide fix to use encrypted password or any other method where we don't have to use plain text password in dex....
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Keep current project available and discoverable while doing a Build/MAKE

Keep the current ADDI project available for discovery while it is rebuild or a MAKE is run. Only make the new project image discoverable once all phases of the build completed. User impact: This prevents bad design decisions or failed discover act...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the JCL Parser to enable ControlM specific code

We have some JCL that contains some ControlM specific code which are decode by ControlM before submission. Some of those JCL can't be add in AD because the JCL parser does not understand it. In our example (TS009034119) the build client tells us t...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Getting z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode

To allow z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode, this removes the need to connect ADDI to z/OS directly (online). Sites that do not allow direct connection between ADDI and z/OS cannot use ADDI for API analysis (z/OS Connect...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Concurrent user login/usage of analyse client with Authentication Server(DEX) enabled in ADDI 6.1.1 i fix version

DEX is used to authenticate users when we login analyse client to perform analysis but currently there is no concurrent login/usage when DEX enabled . it could be very helpful to have options of concurrent login/usage. we have raised IBM case for ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enhancements on CA7 functions

CA7 Job Triggering Flow gives a complete flow of a selected job. However, that's too much results returned. The CA7 jobs I provided it's for a small AD project and we have many projects that are larger. It's very hard to find a selected job on the...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Unreferences variables reporting capability

'Unreferenced working-storage variables' report would be nice to have maybe under 'Dead Code Reports' section.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Specify product specific message id instead of BPXM023I with JZOS API MvsConsole.wto

Z Digital Integration Hub is a Java based strategic hybrid cloud integration product on z/OS for realtime information flow between z/OS core systems and hybrid cloud application. We are currently implementing the support for STOP, DISPLAY and SHUT...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration