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Application Discovery

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AD analyse client and AD server shall coexist with different release levels

Requirement is that the AD analyse client and AD server can coexist with different release levels very much like IDz have implemented their support allowing +-2 release difference. Having this will let us upgrade the server and then gradually upgr...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to automate fetch of PgmModuleMap.txt

Hi When using different names for loadmodule and first program it's possible to map those with PgmModuleMap.txt ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.1?topic=tasks-adding-files-project-folders ). To be able to automate create/update of the textfi...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add PROCs to the Job Call Flow

It would be nice if the PROCs that are called by Jobs were reflected in the Job Call Flow
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CA-7 import via file in project folder

Enhance ADDI to allow CA-7 extracts to be imported via a file in a project folder (no z/OS connection required). Function to work in the same was as you load a CSD file into ADDI.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Know the name of the project where a component is located

When analyzing a project (e.g. a program call graph) with components called (or calling), if a component is not in the project (no source available) then we don't know which project it is in.One possibility might be to display the project name in ...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build Selection Batch Command Line

The IBM Application Discovery Build Client allows us to Build a selection of entities.However, we can't do this with a batch command line.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Batch load of Annotations

Provide a facility to load the Annotations DB in batch.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration