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Application Discovery

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Application Discovery - Handling of special characters in search file function

Function 'search in files' in application discovery doesn't retrive the special characters strings/words from the source base. There were few instance where there is need to perform scan based on the leading/trailing quote(single or double) and/or...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

National characters are not supported under Metadata column in AD Analyze Client

When using REST API functions to place data under the Metadata column within AD Analyze Client we do see that this function does not support national characters.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Possibility to export all components from AD project exploration tab(for each resource type)

Hello In existing AD versions, there is no feature to export all listed components from the project exploration tab. For certain business cases, there is a need to export all components as-is from that list into the different doc as it displays bo...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Display full graph with steps, programs and data sets in a batch job.

For visualizing the JCL of a batch job we can now choose between these Mainframe Graphs in AD: - 'Job Flow', which lists the steps within the job, but not the programs.- 'Job Callgraph', which shows the different programs being called, but does no...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Autoinstalled programs

Building the AD repository for a project does not support CICS Autoinstalled programs
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Improved / Added new features on AD Audit

This RFE focuses on the display of the audit (Audit Service Web GUI). The default sorting is on the date with a sorting from the oldest to the newest. That is, the most recent operations of users are on the last page. It is not practical at all.Co...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration