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Application Discovery

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CSD import (enhance ADDI to work with CICS definitions from multiple groups)

Our CICS definition file (CSD) uses different groups for different CICS resource types. We have one for Transactions in Program Control Table (PCT) and a separate group for defining Programs (PPT). If Transaction and Programs are in different Grou...

Visualization of the Cross-application Callgraph

During a Cross-application callgraph, we would like to be able to view only the links between the projects selected without having the other projects linked.

Job Callgraph

Job callgraph to include PROCS and STEPS

Cross project analysis for program calls

It should be possible to do a cross project 'Usage in Programs' for programs. That means that it should be possible to search for usage of programs/modules cross the enterprise (all projects) to be able to find calls to subprogram/modules from all...

Add Control-M scheduler support in IBM Application Discovery

Currently, IBM Application Discovery can only support schedulers for IWS/TWS, A-Auto & CA-7 but not Control-M. Many customers who are interested in ADDI are using Control-M. It would be great if the product can support Control-M so that custom...

Request for usage status acquisition

To evaluate the use of ADDI,I want to list who is using it by login status and function.If it is "Application Discovery Audit", the login status cannot be known.About some functions that are considered to be used frequently ("Search in file" and "...

Automation of project construction

In the case of mapping deployment across the IT system, we want to optimize and automate the different phases of project construction. Here are the phases we would like to automate: -Creation of the project-Agent Setup-Launch agent for source reco...

Expand the Variable usage filter with Statement (e.g. MOVE in COBOL)

Currently, variable usage can only be determined by specifying the variable name and / or program name. The edited result in the tree must be opened so that the corresponding statement and thus the line is found.This becomes very complex, especial...

Microsoft Active Directory Integration for Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin

Currently, when setting up users and groups in Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin page, the administrators are going through a time consuming process of setting up users and groups manually. The users need to be added via an import f...

Enhancement of AD Graphs (Program CallGraph) for ASSEMBLER

Some part of the output is still in "register notation". We would like the tool to analyze the possible values assigned to the register in the program. For example, in case of an argument passed to a CALL macro, in case of V Macro, we would like t...