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Application Discovery

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Enhancement of AD Graphs (Program CallGraph) for ASSEMBLER

Some part of the output is still in "register notation". We would like the tool to analyze the possible values assigned to the register in the program. For example, in case of an argument passed to a CALL macro, in case of V Macro, we would like t...

TRNID is not recognized as a keyword in CICS program during ADDI build

Hello Team, During building one application, we came across with one error as below.The TRNID is not a recognized but when we checked the same its running fine in Endevor. IBM development team updated that unfortunately the TRNID isn't quite the c...

API extensibility for Assembler Macros

We are using macros to call other programs.These macros are not recognized by Application Discovery. We need a possibiliy to map these macros to for example a call. We also need this functionality for macros doing a database access, leading to a c...

Program calls across the different projects functionality within AD client plug-in

Program call accross different projects RFE is raised already with this number - RFE-136549. This is just to get the functionality itself done. This one (new) RFE is to make this functionality available within IBM AD Client plug-in. As if we do ha...

Program calls across the different projects (Projects interdependency calls)

We did have a requirement during the product PoC, to have program interdependency call between the projects. F.e. if Project A is full of programs including program (module) X. Some programs from Porject A calls module X from the same project.And ...

Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...

Componentization feature to define small AD projects from existing large AD projects

As Mainframe applications are often complex and monolithic, customers want to use AD to cut these large applications into smaller ones, to support their Mainframe applications transformation process. Circular layout of AD graphs is helpful to visu...

IBM AD cannot delete information of resources from repositories,? while using Project update and Make.

In environments not using AD Connector for Mainframe, deletion of resources can not be reflected from Build Client's command line interface. However, since daily resource reflection is automatically performed during daily processing, functions tha...

RFE on ADDI

1. ADDI integration with Control M2. ADDI integration with TMON for CICS (for performance data analysis described using Omegamon for CICS)3. ADDI integration with GIT / Bitbucket as the SCM

PDS SYNCRONISATION NEEDS TO SUPPORT MIXED SOURCE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has mixed source types in their PDSes, i.e. it contain various types of z/OS source files such as Cobol, Assembler within the same PDS. Currently, the PDS syncronisation cannot a...