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Application Discovery

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Target program not resolved when DB2 SYSTSIN executes common program with actual program in PARMS generic

We are undertaking a POT for Tesco using their CR (Continuous Replenishment) application. All their DB2 Batch JCL executes DB2 programs by executing common routing program JJ0RUN, passing it the actual program to be executed by the PARMS parameter...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CA ESP Support

Support CA/ESP as a scheduler
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for run-time elements in dynamically called program names

The following situation is pervasive across the Tesco Continuous Replenishment application. Program JL0F30 has a call to JL0F40 using the following variable: 03 JLF40-PROGRAM-NAME PIC X(8) VALUE "JL F40". (Note the embedded space in the program na...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Not under consideration

Auto populate PL1PreprocessorInfo.ini

When creating a new project having a valid PL1 preprocessor ini file is mandatory to have a successful build. Currently the preprocessor ini file is empty when a new project is created. Preferred situation would be to have the preprocessor ini fil...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery retrieve compile options from JCL

Need to retrieve the compile parameters from the JCL source files . The compile options that are specified in the JCL source files should be stored somehow in the AD database , so we could retrieve them.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

For ADDI to have SQL Server Identity user's password change allowed via some sort of externally-accessible API

To support company's goal (GM) to be compliant for automatic password rotation (no manual change) for all tools. Request to have a change made to AD to allow us to be able to update some file or other resource to update the password for the SQL Id...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Identify Code Affinities

We are in the middle of trying to carve out a large segment of work load and move it to another enterprise complex. The ability to identify affinities in the application (across all programs) would a useful features.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide Graphical Impact Analysis

Provide a graphical impact analysis (focus on one variable / database field / possibly a set of variables / database fields) similar to call-graphs.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

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