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Application Discovery

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Find / Display / Zip Log Files

Provide a feature in each of the AD components that will look at the installation path for that component and display all existing log files Allow the user to check a box to have the log file zipped and stored at a specified location

AD to support TLS 1.2

Customer advises that AD does not support TLS 1.2

Increase the performance on long running Reports

Reports that have a high number of levels to resolve take a long time to presents - in excess of 7 hours of run time.

Option to manage Log Files

Provide an admin type of facility with some automation to manage all of the log files generated by AD.

Print option for the Check Report

Provide a print option for the Build Client Check Report.

Unreferenced Program Report Enhancment

Referenced Program Report shows programs which are executed by transactions

Select multiple PDSs in Build Client

Allow the customer to choose multiple PDS datasets to populate the Project.

Build Client Check - Exclusion List

Make the Build Client Check Report more accurate, smaller, and useful

AD to conttain additional mapping options

Looking for a way to map files specified in JCL (for example) to a copy of the file specified in the JCL that has been downloaded.

EXEC DLI support needed

When AD analyzes code that uses EXEC DLI to access IMS, it needs to detect that it is an IMS call and perform all the normal IMS analysis.