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Application Discovery

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Start AD functions from the Data Elements View in IDz

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Start AD ?SQL Table Field usage? function from IDz editors

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Start AD ?SQL table usage? function from IDz editors

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Start AD ?variable usage? function from IDz editors

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Introduce hard license control mechanism

Customer requires hard license control mechanism to ensure that they are in compliance with audit practices.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Item Name/Comment/Annotation in Resource Selection List

Provide the option to show a speaking name / description / Annotation per item (program/JCL/proc) already in Resource list view together with the item name.E.g.Column1 - Column2JOB1ABCD - "Start Chain of Processing"PGM1XXX - "Finalize Process Hand...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Required few more fields in MFViews & RI dependies table in SQL box for DB2 Enrichment

we could use this ADDI data to replace our Db2 ‘Enrichment’ process where we pull in additional dependant tables required because applications use certain views, or tables that have referential integrity (RI) defined. However, looking at the data ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Automatically populate a Proejct in Build Client

Provide a feature that would automatically open each member of a PDS-like dataset or workstation folder and determine what language that member is, then automatically move it to the correct folder in the Project.Objects where a language type canno...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Dex supports MFA

We are using smartcard when we log in to our accounts in Windows, DEX does not support this. We need ADDI to support MFA since we have strong requirement for the use of this at our company.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration