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Application Discovery

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batch Programs called through SYSIN

Kindly refer case for example of batch programs called through control sysin.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDi - support of different code page in the same library

If you have 2 differents codes page in the same dataset, you can't create a filter based on a patern on the file. Only on the dataset level. An option as we can specify the filter name of the file you want in the dataset can be good.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Identify datasets from JCL DCB

Model datasets which are present in DCB are not getting identified by ADDI. Sample - dataset name PRRG.MODEL.DSCB present in below JCL step. FVROUT0 DD DSN=&ID.&HLQ..&TLQ.NDRGVDMP.&JOBNAME(&GENOUT),DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),DCB=(PRR...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDI: The AIBTDLI interface is not supported in Cobol compiler.

The AIBTDLI interface is not supported in Cobol compiler.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ADDI: dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement

dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement, therefore the statements like the one below are not resolved: set CBLTDLI-ProcPointer to entry CBLTDLI
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Ability to recognise Jobs submitted by Jobs (where a Job submits another job by passing a JCL member to the Internal Readern

Customer has a common technique in batch execution of having a Jobstep within a job which will submit another job by passing a JCL member to the internal reader. If Job A submits Job B, Application Discovery can analyse both Job A and Job B, but c...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Bundled IBM JRE with AD installer

AD should be delivered with IBM JVM for Windows, so the dependency on Oracle JVM is removed. Oracle JVM with security fixes is not longer a free product.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Folders are not getting cleaned for the old gdb databases in \data\tmp\gdb

We are on v5.0.5.2 and we having a multiple folders for a project in \data\tmp\gdb folder. Seems that when project is being re-built, an older version of gdb database folder is still remaining. Looks like that either something is not quite ok with...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Windows Powershell Script to split source files into COBOL src/COPYBOOKS/ directories etc

We need a powershell script, so it will work in windows that utilizes the existing RTCz source code analyzer (java: com.ibm.dmh.scan.classify.jar), to split up a directory of various types of IBM Mainframe Source files into COBOL SRC, COBOL COPYBO...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery Flowcharts and Program Flow should have source file name at top

If flowcharts and program flows are exported to a file, it would be helpful to know the original source file name (COBOL, PLI) for clarity, placing the name of the source file as a text box at the top of the image file.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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