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Application Discovery

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Data encryption between AD Build Client/AD Configuration Build and AD Connect

Data encryption between AD Build Client/AD Configuration Build and AD Connect.

Automated for ADDI administration

To reduce AD administration, a command line interface for all the admin functions for Application Discovery.

AD authetication and aauthorisation

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate when connecting to the AD services. Client rules says that user authentication should be done by means of SSO based on Kerberos or SAML. This same SSO credentials should also be used when accessing th...

Configuration of the file types to be examined in the program callgraph

Currently, when the "Program callgraph" is executed on a program, all calls are examined, so that the files, programs and SQL Table are examined and displayed in the diagrammm. The analysis of all data types takes a lot of time and the performance...

direct setting of paths in the settings an AD project without importing additional sources via an API

It's on:Currently, paths (e.g. to includes on the local server) are only set in the settings of an AD project using a batch process if the resources are imported from the local folder beforehand. The import process evaluates the information from t...

Expand the Include usage filter with Variable

The variable use of includes in programs can currently only be recognized with difficulty through the variables use of a specific program via a manual view. With a variety of variables in the particular / specified program, it is very tedious. Wit...

Implement Orient Database on Mainframe

Currently, IBM AD has the option of implementing the metadata data on z/OS (instead of on a Windows Server platform) in DB2 (instead of SQL Server). This allows the User to keep the various z/OS artifacts on the Mainframe. However, the "Orient Dat...

Build Dashboard

Create a Dashboard showing the "complete-ness" of a Project.

Provide ability to manually clean up corrupted AD projects

Parts of a project's configuration may be lost or corrupted for various reasons (accidental repository database deletion, etc.), which can leave the project's name appearing in IBM AD's configuration and particularly in Build Configuration gui, wh...

Dynamic Variable Program calls

Allow for batch method of updating dynamic call programs