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Application Discovery

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Show scope of a variable in variable usage

Show whether a variable is local or global (shared by multiple programs) in variable usage + allow filtering; allow easy information about which global variables a program accesses. Show "central variables" used by many programs.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for ISPF Dialogue Manager

Support 'maps' written is ISPF Dialogue Manager
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow annotations everywhere

Allow annotations also for program-flow, flowchart, ...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow regrouping of variable usage

Allow regrouping of variable usage like SQL usage.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show runtime data in (Job-)Callgraphs

Show runtime data (from SMF / monitoring tools) in graphs, such as:- Mean execution time- Number of executions- Number of ABENDs- ...Should be able to switch between "sources" for runtime data (such as production system 1, production system 2, tes...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Drill-Down into complexity

Provide developers with guidance on which parts of a program increase its complexity score mostly (e.g. heatmap / color-coded scrollbar / ...) with tips on how to decrease complexity (e.g. "complexity is high because you are using too many IF-stat...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SQL-Usage for Subselect, JOIN, VIEWS, ...

Show SQL-Table / Field usage also for subselects, JOINs, VIEWs (accessing certain tables) and so one.
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Missing CallTree View/Query

Missing CallTree-View/query (Impact analysis extension) to (a) recursively list all methods with their sourcefile name that are called by a given program/subprogram regarding all hierarchical levels, all languages (C,PL/1,Assembler) and all kinds ...
almost 10 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Not under consideration

RFE for updating members in build client in chunks

Updating members in build client causing high CPU consumption since choosing the complete project is the only option that we have. Therefore ADDI started task IAYLSTNR starts to consume a lot of CPU (resulting in high MIPS consumption). It would b...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Not under consideration

CA7 - show mutexes in graphs

In the CA7 graphs & legend, include the mutexes on jobs.Note: this information is in the CA7 report file ingested by AD. (see attached email)
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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