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Application Discovery

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AD compiler to evaluate conditions of Perform loops

TD Bank would like AD compiler to evaluate conditions of Perform loops. They can understand why AD determines the PERFORM D000-PROCESS statement as reachable.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The ADDI - MFS Source was not picked up as impacted component

TD Bank is trying to use Field expansion report. However, the MFS Source was not picked up as impacted component. Case # TS003122936 has more details.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI user logoff and ADDI server stops automatically

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and after a user startup the ADDI server, the user needs to keep logon to maintain proper function of the ADDI server. Once the user signout, the ADDI server is stopped automatically.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

DB2 as repository will not support Analyze Server/Java source code analysis

Customer is trying to use DB2 as a repository and do Java source code analysis and this is not support by DB2... you can only do Java source code analysis with the more popular SQL server.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IDMS Record name is ignored during build

The idea is that AD takes into account the name of the IDMS record and modules (source) during its parsing (as it does for programs and JCLs) instead of the component name (which is a renaming under MVS...)
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

AD Build Client settings allows customizations about windows

In AD 5.1.03, during the project build process, the Settings on AD Build Client , it would help if the selection window size(On Settings) is customizable (to be able to view entire path/folder name).
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Improve AD download process

One thing probably to note is that once one type of source is downloaded into AD, the saving/processing of that happens only if the user initiates some other activity on the Build Client. This adds to the wait time between downloads.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Extend the Impact Report to allow starting from a 'File'

The impact report starting from the variable used in a READ statement does not show any link to the variable associated with the file in FILE SECTION. The impact report contains only direct data transfers between variables.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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