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Application Discovery

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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 1 Future 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.
about 6 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

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...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration