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Application Discovery

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CA7 Directives

AD not accepting CA7 Scheduling directives
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IMS database Usage using load modules as inputs

In the current IMS database Usage function, it is showing the database's name and the structure of the segments used in a given Cobol program. However, the users run this function with a load module as an input. I would like to see the IMS databas...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Multiple ADDI instance use same SQL Server

We have 2 apps that use ADDI. We would like to use the same SQL Server VM instance for both. How do we setup our DB/instances/configuration to do this?
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD and report list customization

Sun Life Insurance is interested in a capability where they could hide/show reports available in the report list according to their convenience. Also, Sun Life would like to have the feature to rename the reports available in AD report list to som...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Configurable subsystems during application definition in Application Discovery Build Client

Configurable subsystems when defining a new application (project)
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

To enable viewing of JCL Control Cards in AD Analyze Client

National Australia Bank has requested for the ability to view contents of JCL Control Files in the Explore Project functionality or JCL expansion.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Field Usage Report Enhancement

When we generated specific “Field usage report” for CHESS field CDE-EE-SEX-EERT, we were able to obtain smaller report of 62 pages. This report publishes the meta-data (such as line numbers & source name) and shows us a hint about statement be...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add new COBOL statements

We would like to add 5 “new” Cobol statements, which would be similar to this query for COBOL: ACCEPT statement.(dbo.StatementReference.StatementType = 7), where 7 "COBOL: ACCEPT" Here are the 5 statements;4000 "COBOL: DATE_FORMAT"4001 "COBOL: DAT...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

API for pipeline and automation use to discover status

For automation purposes we need to know when a project is ready for discovery. This includes all 3 phases (Build server processes: [1]Build/Make & [2]API resolution; AD server process: Batch server [3] callgraph update, etc.). The automation p...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

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