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Application Discovery

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

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

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

Message Queue Identification

MQ names are stored in and fetched from DB2 tables/Files/Messages. ADDI cannot give actual Queue name used to put/get the messages.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction to main program dependency/flow isn't getting established

CICS resources extract process cannot capture auto-installing modules because program definitions are commonly not defined either in CSD or CPSM. As a result of which ADDI is not establishing dependency/flow from transaction to the main program ev...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Dependent DB2 Objects Discovery

1. Pull in dependent Db2 objects that are required for Views, RI, and aliases. We currently have our own process to do this.2. If not already supported – Db2 stored procs, User defined functions and user defined data types
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Support the import of CICS BAS resource definition statements into Application Discovery

Application Discovery currently supports the input of RDO statements from the CICS DFHCSD file as part of the build process. there are several ways to define CICS resources in addition to RDO. This RFE is to extend this support to cater for statem...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration