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Application Discovery

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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

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

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

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

List of control card members (utilities) that have both: the string in and a list of all the jobs calling the utilities

Customer is looking for enhancement in impact analysis process. For example, all jobs that use one or more “UTL's” that have a particular string in them. These “UTL's” may be called directly from the job, but more likely they are called by a PROC ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Dataset reports, Dataset flow graph need to show the relationships between datasets when read and write is done through HOGAN

Currently the Dataset reports and Dataset flow graph is unable to show the relationships between dataset when the read and write is performed through Hogan activities. It is important for this feature to be enabled when read and write is performed...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Add report to ADDI

Would like to have ADDI generate a report that counts the number of mainframe files in the ADDI repository, only the number of individual files, NOT the number of uses, where used, how used, size, etc. As an example- file numberPO 256PS 12341DA 16...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - multiple lists

When build the AD repository with information from the CICS CSD file, the current implementation seems to limit the tool to read from 1 single DFHCSDUP LIST command. In many cases an application runs in multiple CICS regions (for workload manageme...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration