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Application Discovery

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AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

AD - Representing DL1 call graph/DB's in different annotation.

If common DL-1 service module “pgm-x’ having CBLTDLI is called by ‘pgm-1’ , ‘pgm-2’, ‘pgm-3’ for several business reasons, finally at the end AD generates 3 different call arrows towards different databases for same physical call in the service mo...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

JCL Include option for impact analysis in ADDI analyse client

1.Unable to get information of JCL include via the JCL job in ADDI analyse client(zOS explorer) . 2.there is no option available for JCL include type in resource type to validate the jobs which are using it. Impact: if include member is changed , ...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Keys or passtickets to connect DB2 server

Currently DB2 server is connected/configured using service id and password in dashboard (-> Configure -> Servers & security tab -> Relational database server). There is requirement to replace DB2 server credentials (service id and pas...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Provide possibility to automate fetch of PgmModuleMap.txt

Hi When using different names for loadmodule and first program it's possible to map those with PgmModuleMap.txt ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.1?topic=tasks-adding-files-project-folders ). To be able to automate create/update of the textfi...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Capture the architecture of mainframe applications using REST API methods

We have an Architecture Repository to support architecture work related to the business applications. In order to get this Architecture Repository fully functioning that system must be fed with with the data that comes from the systems. Therefore ...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration