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Application Discovery

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Job Flow

Allow all components in a Job Flow to be opened in Browse.

IMS Screen Field Drill Down to Program and Data Element

Need the ability to start from a field on an IMS Screen and be able to analyze which program uses that screen and which data element in the program it is associated with. This can generally be done now in ADDI 5.0.4.1 but issue starts when the IMS...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Unused Routines Report

We would like to see and indicator if an entire paragraph or only specific lines of the paragraph are indicated as non-executable.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make Build Client Check Report more useful.

Customer want to know where the missing components reported in the Check Report are being used. This is to determine if the components are obsolete or required for the project / application.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for JCL with Blanks in Columns 1 through 7

Support for parsing JCL source code with blanks in columns 1 through n
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Needed AD Visualisation for RAA Customers

RAA customers frequently reference the MVS Assets View that RAA provides. AD needs a similar view of the Repository.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Impact Analysis report to highlight field overrides

AD Impact Analysis to highlight field overrides.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add details for multiple occurrences of the same library name in the Add Files From Mainframe dialogue in Build Client

Customer is seeing the same library appear multiple times in the Add Files From Mainframe dialogue. The behavior is expected as no more details are retrieved from maninframe (and this is how the differentiation could be done in interface).At AmEx ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Options to have a more complete visizuation of a program

Would like to have options in the various Callgraphs Wizards to generate a full execution sequence of a program showing (for example) JCL > Program with all data elements.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Configure log locations for Application Discovery components

Allow the location of logs generated by Application Discovery server components to be configured by an Application Discovery administrator.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration