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Application Discovery

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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...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Add capability to copy projects with their data from one system to another

The build takes a while for our projects and IBM suggested to add more build server machines (we use virtual servers) to allow multiple project to be build at the same time. The Callgraph update process however always run on the batch server which...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 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...
about 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 “...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under 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

Indicator in the Analyze Client interface to tell the user if the project is ready for discovery

Currently users don't know if a project is completed as the last step of a MAKE or BUILD action nl. batch server callgraph update process, is hidden. It must be clear for users if they can rely on the analysis results or if the batch portion is st...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Provision of the functions for deleting modules via the API

An AD project can currently be created via an API, artifacts imported and a build / make performed, but not deleted.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ADDI-Support for current version of Assembler

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the Assembler scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

AD Parser support for SQL comment line

Working on an ADDI opportunity where client has large number of SQL comment lines embedded in SQL statements. The AD parser currently does not recognize these SQL comment lines and hence resulted in parser errors and no resolution
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IBM AD Audit service is not added as a Windows service

IBM AD Audit service is stand alone service that has to be started each time manually from the command line after server is re-started. This Audit service needs to be implemented into 'Windows Services' in order to be able set the automatic start.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration