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Application Discovery

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Cobol Sub-Program Calls not correctly resolved

Call graph resolution does not work completely when a constant variable defined in working storage is used for a call. Calls are shown as "Unknown Program" in that case.Good is that the calls are listed. But the deeper level information of those "...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICS CSD INPUT: when application source code in synchronized, the CICS CSD updates are updated to project as well.

Customer wants to be able to somehow update CICS CSD as input to make/build process in an automated process. When CICS CSD is updated, or perhaps every time there is a SYNCHRONATION PROCESS of updated source code, a new CICS CSD input is provided ...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

NATURAL source code needs to be split up by build configurator/build client into "mode" subdirectories

State of Colorado has large NATURAL application that needs Application Discovery analysis. NATURAL source code can be parsed in two different modes depending on which mode "structured" or "reporting" it was developed. This mode information is avai...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Create AD Plugin for MacOS Eclipse

Many of our Engineers and other users of AD have Macs and cannot use AD as the Eclipse plugin is not certified for MacOS Eclipse. Create an AD Plugin for Eclipse on MacOS so the tool is not limited to only Windows users of Eclipse.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Distinction between COBOL used in batch or CICS/IMS

Being able to distinguish between COBOL used in batch or CICS/IMS in call graph in AD Analyse Client by different color or icon
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Retrieve DB2 columns structure from DB2 catalog

Retrieve DB2 columns structure from DB2 catalog
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add additional components to the Explore <project-name> dialogue

Would like to be able to select JCL Include and JCL Control from the Explore <project-name> pull down
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for GSAM feature

Please see PMR for all details.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for MQ in Assembler

We need support for MQ in Assembler.Please see PMR for all details.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

US Section 508 - option for colour blind staff

Provide an option for colour blind staff to hover over a line in a graph an have a pop-up appear as to what the line is describing.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration