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AD builder - Analysis of PARM parameter in the EXEC card in JCL

Analysis of PARM parameter in the EXEC card in JCL

Unattempted BMS MAP treatment

We discovered an unexpected result on the BMS MAP under the AD Analyse Client.

AD package

Have a package only on AD and not on all ADDI because it's currently too big (more than 4GB)

Evolution of TWS for adding batchloader format in AD

We have a constraint for adding TWS component. Just the batchloader is accept in our system.

Possibility of adding a zOS Cobol directory with asynchronous command

From asynchronous commands, it would be possible to add both the zOS Cobol and IDMS Cobol directories during Build Configuration. As it's possible to do when creating a project in the Build Client.

AD Build Client should remember the folder it was on before, making it easy to select multiple ones from the list.

In AD 5.1.03, during the project build process, the Settings on AD Build Client should remember the folder it was on before, making it easy to select multiple ones from the list.

AD Built Client recognize that a limit has been reached in the Windows folder and continue the process

Currently, A 5.1.0.3 is limited to create a Windows folder with the limit number of 40,000 members. That limitation came from Windows Operational system. TD Bank is requesting that once AD reaches the limit of artifact per folder which is 40,000 m...

Support CA Panvalet preprocessing for PL/I

Hello,in our environment most of Cobol and PL1 sources are stored on Panvalet dataset. Since the Panvalet ds-type is not yet supported in ADDI we use tools to copy our source codes from Panvalet to 'normal' PO datasets. Right now we try to add ~13...

ADDI AD Connect automation security model and user enhancements

Based on our evaluation/testing of IBM ADDI AD Connect automation, we have found that while technically feasible, i.e. we were able to connect ADDI server Build Configuration tool to the MF endeavor through the AD Connect listener and retrieve tes...

Explorer Project - How to identify pgm belonging to the Project from the ones belonging to other projects?

AD development confirmed that the requirement to distinguish the sourcesthat are directly present inside a project ( with source code available)and the sources that are being called by the programs inside the project ( with no source and path in p...