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Application Discovery

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Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

National characters are not supported under Metadata column in AD Analyze Client

When using REST API functions to place data under the Metadata column within AD Analyze Client we do see that this function does not support national characters.
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

View paths to sources

The IP addresses of the machine, where the sources are stored, are currently visible to users, for example in reports (inventory), usages and in the Eclipse window "Properties" for projects or resources (programs, copy...). This information is not...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Expand the Variable usage filter with the content of the variable

Currently, only the variable name and / or the program can be specified as a criterion via the usage variable. The result set can be very extensive when querying variables across several AD projects and therefore the viewing for the user can also ...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Possibility to export all components from AD project exploration tab(for each resource type)

Hello In existing AD versions, there is no feature to export all listed components from the project exploration tab. For certain business cases, there is a need to export all components as-is from that list into the different doc as it displays bo...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Dataset flow graph support for Compuware File-Aid utility

We use File-aid batch utilities extensively in our batch jobs. AD's dataset flow does not support File-aid and therefore looks broken. This RFE is created as agreed with IBM staff KTIMOTHY@jp.ibm.com and yiplf@sg.ibm.com refer TS004447144 for details
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Update annotations via API

Annotations on artifacts and AD projects should be able to be changed via an API. Currently, annotations can only be set and changed via the preprocessor step in the Build Client or manually in the IDE integration. If annotation represents meta in...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

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