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Application Discovery

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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

Delete statement is not considered by the compiler while build in ADDI.

The reason that the last delete is not parsed is because the statement WHERE CURRENT OF LINK_CSR is not recognized by our parser. delete that appears in the list: EXEC SQL DELETE FROM TBAFOTE_TRN_ECD WHERE BRANCH_NO = :TBAFOTR.BRANCH-NO AND ACCOUN...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Need a process exclude called programs/utilities with no source from missing components reports

Need a process to Identify and exclude called programs/utilities with no source from missing components reports
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IMS/DB need to be processed in JCLs

Please see all details in PMR 40939,110,846
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CA7 Directives

AD not accepting CA7 Scheduling directives
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Configurable subsystems during application definition in Application Discovery Build Client

Configurable subsystems when defining a new application (project)
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add additional report to view the unused variables in a program

Is it possible to see the unused variables in the program? Variables which are just declared and never used in the program. Currently developer can be able to see the unused procs in the program in report "unused routines within program".
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Consideration of all IMS syntaxes

We found following an incident on the tool that some syntaxes, such as CEETLDI, in IMS calls were not supported by the tool. Only the CBLTLDI syntax was supported by the tool. I found this IBM documentation for information :https://www.ibm.com/sup...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Cloud enable ADDI servers

Currently the servers for ADDI are set up to be physical or virtual machines. It is configured for that particular installation. Others that tried using the cloud solution had to build an image for that particular instance and had to build another...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Explore AD project: Display of resource types that have an artifact

It would be better if the folders were named when the AD projects were created and only these could be created. Subsequent creation and deletion should be possible for existing AD projects. With this control, on the one hand, the user can navigate...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration