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Application Discovery

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Job Flow graph can display related datasets and their attributes.

Current Job Flow graph only shows job steps.It becomes more useful to understand the structure of jobs if relations between job steps and related datasets are linked in one graph view. It is also preferable if data sets could be displayed with the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Select a job from member name.

Resource type of JCL job in Explore tab in Analyze client lists only names of collected jobs.There shall be an option to select a job from a list of names of data set members that holds it.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Set up Decision in batch

Currently, you can only manually add Decision in Build Client one by one, when you have large volume of decisions to add, there is no easier way to get these setup than using the dialog in the Build Client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Field Impact Analysis to exclude dead code from report

Impact Analysis to exclude dead code from report as dead code is non-executable and may lead to confusion.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

To allow using wild cards in Extensibility JSON definition

Client has over 3500 IO-Modules. It would indeed become a large JSON file, and even if there is no maintenance, meaning once created these entries do not change, it's still going to be hard to work with such a file.Therefore please consider enhanc...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PL1 with PCB pointer reference

AD doesn't build the PCB that is referenced by a pointer correctly
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Expand Source to process override statements

Application is using procedures a lot. When looking for where files are used the answer sometimes is a procedure inside a Job.AD offers 'Expand Source', which pulls in the procedure. Notation is looking very similar to same functionality on mainfr...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 6 Not under consideration

ADDI Analyze Client - copybook variables should be visible to choose for Impact Report related to fields.

Issue: Inside the project, if we select Cobol Program as resource type and if we choose one Cobol program and click on Impact reports, it is not listing out Copybook variables. It is only listing out working storage variables. Enhancement Request:...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Animator feature in Application Discovery

Request for animator-like feature in Application Discovery that allows users of the Analyst client to step thru the program source code as if they are in debugging mode. When decision point is reached such as IF/ELSE condition, the system will pau...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Identify Copybook Usage in zOS Connect API with Application Discovery

What we're looking for is a way to identify potential conflicts when a Copybook is in play in either our MVS system (home-grown Host SCM Tool) or outside of the mainframe in OMVS and or the z/OS Connect environment.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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