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Application Discovery

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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.

Changes needed to support DR policy

Application Discovery should be architected in such a way that backup and restore can easily be done, as well as duplication of environments.

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Problem description and business impact Using Application Discovery 5.0.1 with special build server patch for USAA Dynamic Calls Attached document has examples from Graphics View. A PL/I program CxxxxxP calls a COBOL program Cxxxx7. Following Cxxx...

The "View expanded source" feature exists only for COBOL and JCL in ADDI. Please implement this feature for PL/I also.

The "View expanded source" feature exists only for COBOL and JCL in ADDI. Please implement this feature for PL/I also. Please treat this as high priority since this feature is part of our decision to use ADDI and implement it to production

IMS/DB Calls incorrectly shown

Program XXXXXXXX contains a single GU call to segment POCTROLE. In both Program callgraph and IMS/DB where used this is represented as two separate calls - one to segment P04ROOT, and one to segment POCTROLE. This is because Program SSAs are not c...