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Application Discovery

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parallel build client calls

In the case of a large number of AD projects (approx. 500), which contain a different number of mainframe artifacts (up to max. 20000), one call for the creation, import and build of each individual AD project in succession cannot be implemented o...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add functional group column in "Project explorer" view

Have a new column to group multiple projects in "Project explorer" view.Be able to set up the group to put a list of projectsFunctionality for administrators only (AD Configuration Servers Admin for example).Please see file attachement.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CPSM to CSD conversion

Currently there is no utility available in ADDI to convert CPSM resources to CSD. We are looking for a function to be available in ADDI tool itself for the conversion.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

ADDI: Recognition of an IMS database call that takes place in a home-grown interface

1. Our dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved:CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03Dummy-P04Dummy-P05Dummy-P062. Our dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO E...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Missing CICS transactions

There were some transactions which were not getting reflected in ADDI so we contacted UIBM team for the same and they have provided below response.Please find bellow L3 conclusions:- I have started with transaction XF54 that is mapped with program...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

"CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" Show with SCHID =000

Requirement:Allow AD to show CA-7 Job Trigger Flows for SCHID=000 Issue:Currently AD does not allow this.A case was raised and closed with IBM L3 support responding with “By design, schedule 000 is not available for selection, as it is not a speci...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule. There was a RFE 146935 raised earlier and there wer...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Have a Cobol program Outline available while viewing source

Purpose: to enhance the ability of viewing and navigating Cobol code by the use of an outline of the program structure. Clicking on the different divisions, sections or paragraphs will take you to that point. This makes the engineer's job easier a...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Instream temporary file names in Callgraph are unclear

To track this future enhancement, L3 support has asked for an RFE to be raised asking for improvement to the display of temporary datasets so it does not show strange names such as EZ_SYSIN_2613 for temporary datasets.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

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