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Application Discovery

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AD Analyze Client authorization and authentication using client certificate

Product get more security features if this option would be available. Idea is to have AD Analyze Client to be able to authorize and authenticate to server using client certificates.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 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...
over 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.
over 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.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure (remove) subsystems in AD Analyze Client operations

Ability to configure a template, or list of required subsystems, so that only required subsystem functions are displayed.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for MQ Topics and Subscriptions

RFE for the support of MQ topics and subscriptions
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

'Find' capability in generated reports

Capability to have a 'Find' operation in the Application Discovery generated reports.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for NDM steps in JCL

Customer has 700+ NDM steps. And there are around 1000+ files which they send using NDM and needs analysis more frequently to trace it back. The analysis is more frequent and as they are feeds to other systems, understanding and including them in ...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Extract call graph programs in hierarchical formats for better readability/analysis

In certain situations if the driver program having nested calls (from level0 … to .. level10 for example), then as a user it is good to have all these programs listed in the proper hierarchical format that would render easy understanding and bette...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

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...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration