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Application Discovery

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Automatically populate a Proejct in Build Client

Provide a feature that would automatically open each member of a PDS-like dataset or workstation folder and determine what language that member is, then automatically move it to the correct folder in the Project.Objects where a language type canno...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

batch Programs called through SYSIN

Kindly refer case for example of batch programs called through control sysin.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDi - support of different code page in the same library

If you have 2 differents codes page in the same dataset, you can't create a filter based on a patern on the file. Only on the dataset level. An option as we can specify the filter name of the file you want in the dataset can be good.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

AD Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs

Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs are not resolved correctly to show COBOL/Assembler programs being called in the call chain, they just show a pointer to PEM assembler macros. This is the case with all Hogan Assembler Programs. Per ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Identify datasets from JCL DCB

Model datasets which are present in DCB are not getting identified by ADDI. Sample - dataset name PRRG.MODEL.DSCB present in below JCL step. FVROUT0 DD DSN=&ID.&HLQ..&TLQ.NDRGVDMP.&JOBNAME(&GENOUT),DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),DCB=(PRR...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDI: The AIBTDLI interface is not supported in Cobol compiler.

The AIBTDLI interface is not supported in Cobol compiler.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ADDI: dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement

dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO ENTRY ... statement, therefore the statements like the one below are not resolved: set CBLTDLI-ProcPointer to entry CBLTDLI
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Addtional information on check report

Check report in AD incorrectly miss some information about IDMS components (schemas, subschemas, records and modules)
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Ability to recognise Jobs submitted by Jobs (where a Job submits another job by passing a JCL member to the Internal Readern

Customer has a common technique in batch execution of having a Jobstep within a job which will submit another job by passing a JCL member to the internal reader. If Job A submits Job B, Application Discovery can analyse both Job A and Job B, but c...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Project lock status

IBM Application Discovery Batch Server service locks the project during import operation in case of any project changes identified by AD batch server. Because of project lock, when we launch UMM, Build and Make operation via automated script, AD t...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration