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Application Discovery

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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

Start AD ?SQL Table Field usage? function from IDz editors

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

Start AD ?SQL table usage? function from IDz editors

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

Start AD ?variable usage? function from IDz editors

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

ADDI-Support for current version of PL/I

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the PL/I scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM(R) Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Introduce hard license control mechanism

Customer requires hard license control mechanism to ensure that they are in compliance with audit practices.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI to Discover Db2 Sequences

ADDIs source code analysis doesn't currently detect Db2 sequences. This requirement is to have Sequences detected and registered in the ADDI database.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Item Name/Comment/Annotation in Resource Selection List

Provide the option to show a speaking name / description / Annotation per item (program/JCL/proc) already in Resource list view together with the item name.E.g.Column1 - Column2JOB1ABCD - "Start Chain of Processing"PGM1XXX - "Finalize Process Hand...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

option to export the list of users

we need an option to export the user list who has access to projects in ADDI.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Functionality already exists