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Application Discovery

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Programmatic prerequisite/configuration checker for Application Discovery Server machines

Paraphrasing colleague Roberto C after a recent issue where a WinSrv 2012 R2 machine didn't have certain Windows patches and didn't have Visual C++ components that were apparently required by Application Discovery Build's installation program for ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Build Client settings to connect with DB2 using SSL/TLS Certificate

Client needs AD to support a secure connection with the DB2 database using a certificate/key file. Client also requires a centralized certificate configuration
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Export in CSV of Control-M components

It is not possible to export the Control-M plan in CSV or Excel format Our need is to have two possible exports (CSV or Excel), this can be on the same file with two tabs:- Downstream links with the list of Jobs and their successors- Upstream link...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Remove browser requirement for servers' install/upgrade

We are not able to upgrade to ADDI 6.1.1 as it requires an Internet browser, which are not allowed on servers as it creates an unacceptable risk to our organization.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

SQL Authentication

Allow " Windows Authentication " for the ID associated to the IBM AD SQL Identity.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ADDI - Automatically provide Project list aftert startup

When starting AD the Project List is empty. Users manually need to provision the list of Projects each time AD is started.This seems a pointless action since all the connection information is present in the IDE. We would like to see the project li...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Add filter in Build Configuration and Build Client

Need a filter addition in which we can directly search for the name of a project or a part.In Build Client at the small pop-up that opens to select a project and at the Build Configuration level in the list of projects.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Start AD functions from the Data Elements View in IDz

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration