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Application Discovery

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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

ADDI - CICS orphaned programs to be displayed in graphs

See TS002530599 RE: PMR 92678,004,000 - BofA - Missing CICS Transactions from Graph and Selection lists
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Graphic flow chart - Missing information on arrows

Graphic flow chart - Some information are missing from this flow chart (branches on IF or WHEN COBOL orders). It is then necessary to look into the Source Code of the program to understand the graph. Add information on the graph to display the mea...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Impact Reports - Incorrect management of Occursed data during the impact analysis

Incomplete management of data with REDEFINES and OCCURS clauses in COBOL pgm when generating the Impact Analysis Report. This happens when the impact analysis is performed on the occursed variable, and if this variable is also a REDEFINE of a set ...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD builder - Dynamic resolution of values transferred through pointers (addresses)

System: Application Discovery Client Product We want to use Application Discovery for all of our z/OS applications. Description: Application Discovery Build Client does not have support compilation for dynamic resolution of values transferred thro...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Taradata

Support Taradata db
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Oracle

Support Oracle db
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Open-source components support

Open-source components support
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Warnings founded when building the project COB (Case 2)

The new feature will avoid to think that the COBOL analyzer is not following the new rules of COBOL authorized by the compilers.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Warnings founded when building the project COB (Case 9)

The new feature will avoid to think that the COBOL analyzer is not following the new rules of COBOL authorized by the compilers.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration