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Application Discovery

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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...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Duplicate Code Detection

Show programs with duplicate code / logic in addition to dead code.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show more information in graphs (customizable)

Show more information in graphs through color-coding, line thickness, ...- Show program complexity scores in program box (red=complex, green=simple)- Show number of call-statements on connection (bold line = many different calls, light line = only...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for REXX

Provide support for REXX
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Projects and Sub-Projects

Rational Asset Analyser has the ability to have Projects and sub-Projects under the higher level. This ability is needed in AD
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Extend AD to be able map our online CICS environment with non-unique transaction names.

Main goal is to allow additional (user) attributes to support having the same transaction name multiple times in AD repository but with different program names and user attributes in different projects. Way back in the 1980's, our company wasn't h...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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