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Application Discovery

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Dead Code: Unused Routines Report

Would like to see links from the report back to the unexecuted lines indicated in the report.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Java Support on API Extensions

Within the JSON format for the API extensibility the resourcetype should be extended so that JavaClass and JavaMethod are available so that coming from Java I can identify calls to host applications and the other way around : If a COBOL / PLI prog...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Analyze client showing repeated job steps in the job flow graph

The job flow graph shows has the steps repeated multiple times. After investigation it was found out that it is happening due to two reasons:1. Less details are presented on the jobflow graph by design (program name or dataset name is not shown by...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Allow JCL Control Cards to be referenced by full DSN rather than member name only

A group within BNYM have been using Micro Focus Revolve for 20 years, and are evaluating replacing it with ADDI. An issue of great significance to them (and for which they got Micro Focus to change Revolve at some point) is the correct resolution ...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CA7 In Memory process with Wildcards

ANZ would like to have a selection field holding Job Schedule wildcard option in the Application Discovery, CA7 Workload Automation tab of the z/OS configuration window of the Build Server.ANZ has over 140000 job schedules and it would be better t...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Customer: NEXT (retailer in UK) wants to use "synchronization file" on NATURAL source code

Customer (NEXT clothing retailer in UK) uses Natural source code and wishes to use synchronization to update the source code. Customer currently has to do manual updates to source code which is labor intensive.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

AD to provide support for C

Provide support for the C programming language at the same level as COBOL and PL/I
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Alanlyze Client for Apple Mac

Need to have a version of the Analyze Client for use with Apple Mac devices.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery: Add support duplicated section names on COBOL

Currently Application Discovery does not supportduplicated section names on COBOL, as they are saved into the database as a parent structure for the statements contained.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD support data driven application

The core banking application is data-driven, which program execution flow is controlled dynamically by the configuration data store in DB2 table. Now AD static code scan facility can not support such use case.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration