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Application Discovery

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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

Display of the number of results determined in a usage analysis

Currently, the number of results found is not displayed in a usage analysis. The number can only be determined by manual counting. Especially when a usage analysis is started over several AD projects, all AD projects must first be opened in the tr...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

AD build Client - Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language

Support of Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language in Application Discovery Build Client.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Public API for Application Discovery Parser and Impact Analysis

Application Discovery is good at understanding the overall mainframe application platform. It creates a repository of parsed mainframe components and also cross linkages and dependencies. Since Application Discovery parses the COBOL program and st...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Evolution of occurs numbers in program IMS DB import

The same like in the PMR.We have an issue with the occurs numbers in program IMS DB report. This is a consequences of the counting of every programs.After discussion with AD Architect, we have a solution by adding two columns : inner occurs (just ...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Support resource in different groups in CSD parser

ADDI CSD parser to support CICS resource defined in different groups.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration