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Application Discovery

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Recognize SQLCA / SQLDA includes as standard DB2

PL1 SQLCA and SQLDA includes will automatically be resolved by the DB2 precompiler. ADDI build throws out warnings because it tries to find the corresponding include files (SQLCA/SQLDA) which are not needed for compiling the code.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support Micro Focus COBOL

Provide support in the Build Client for Micro Focus COBOL.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD Cobol Pre-processor extensibility to be able to generate AFTER pre-processor Cobol files

Hi Team,Kookmin bank uses the BANCS application from INFOSYS. They wanted AD to generate the AFTER Cobol files from the pre-processor extensibility instead of getting these files from the mainframe pre-processors.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Excel export functionality

Would like to be able to export analysis results such as Call dependencies and CRUD matrix to Excel. This functionality is necessary becausedevelopers look at the graphs less often, but rather do impact analysis using Excel more often.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for open system languages

Would like to request to add support for open system languages (C, VB, PHP)
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL

Would like to request to add support for Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL , so that we can analyze Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL source code. At present, there are errors during analysis.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CHECK at the Folder Level

Would like to be able to right-click on a Folder and run the CHECK function for that folder only. Would like to see a change in the Icon when a member has all components already available as of the last time CHECK was run. Would like to have a dat...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Mac Analyse Client

Mac version of the Analyse Client
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

OO COBOL support

OO COBOL support requested.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

SWT COBOL support

SWT COBOL needs to be supported
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration