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Application Discovery

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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

Required few more fields in MFViews & RI dependies table in SQL box for DB2 Enrichment

we could use this ADDI data to replace our Db2 ‘Enrichment’ process where we pull in additional dependant tables required because applications use certain views, or tables that have referential integrity (RI) defined. However, looking at the data ...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Dex supports MFA

We are using smartcard when we log in to our accounts in Windows, DEX does not support this. We need ADDI to support MFA since we have strong requirement for the use of this at our company.
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 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

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

Windows Powershell Script to split source files into COBOL src/COPYBOOKS/ directories etc

We need a powershell script, so it will work in windows that utilizes the existing RTCz source code analyzer (java: com.ibm.dmh.scan.classify.jar), to split up a directory of various types of IBM Mainframe Source files into COBOL SRC, COBOL COPYBO...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery Flowcharts and Program Flow should have source file name at top

If flowcharts and program flows are exported to a file, it would be helpful to know the original source file name (COBOL, PLI) for clarity, placing the name of the source file as a text box at the top of the image file.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Bundled IBM JRE with AD installer

AD should be delivered with IBM JVM for Windows, so the dependency on Oracle JVM is removed. Oracle JVM with security fixes is not longer a free product.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Folders are not getting cleaned for the old gdb databases in \data\tmp\gdb

We are on v5.0.5.2 and we having a multiple folders for a project in \data\tmp\gdb folder. Seems that when project is being re-built, an older version of gdb database folder is still remaining. Looks like that either something is not quite ok with...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration