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Application Discovery

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API call for preprocessor integration (Create a new AD-Project)

The automation of existing AD projects (current state) 1. Copy the artifacts in the subfolder of the AD projects2. Generation of the make-bat files3. Parallel execution of the make-bat files The preprocessor integration has to be done manually for...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Selection of individual files from a folder

So far, only the full path to the artifacts from which all files are imported can be specified via the API. Particularly in the case of overlapping storage structures, the artifacts must be copied before installation so that they are correctly imp...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 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...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 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...
about 4 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...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Suggestion for the Sync file between AD and ChangeMan

A couple of suggestions which could help with some of the configuration issues between Application Discovery and ChangeMan. Suggestion would be to allow for enhanced generics for members of a PDS, exclusion of members from PDS, and multiple entrie...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Update Synchronise process to advise the status of each stage and clearly highlight any failures rather than just having them hidden in the middle of the logs

This will be useful as it will provide a single location to identify if any parts of the synchronise process has failed. It will be of benefit to anyone who uses the synchronise process as it will enable either manual or automatic checking of the ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Stored Procedure Support

Provide support for DB2 Stored Procedures
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI - Enable filtering of TWS applications during import

During import of TWS Applications in AD via AD Connect it is not possible to filter the import. Only the whole TWS Database can be imported for each project. So all irrelevant TWS Applications for a project are imported as well. We want to be able...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDI - Improve Import IWS Applications with AD Connect

In our test-environment we are currently testing the import of TWS applications into our projects. The performance of this import is very poor. After runstats etc. we see that one query stands out in “Average getpages” (216779,00). Just like the “...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration