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Application Discovery

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Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Enhance Anotations Support

Allow mechanism for adding Annotations en Mass
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for CA JobTrac

AD to include support for CA Job Trac
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Field expansion report not showing any PL/I members in the list

AD field expansion report only display COBOL members, not showing any PL/I members in the list. Please implement this feature for PL/I also.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Build Client Retrieve Pause Function

Users want the ability to pause download/retrievals from the mainframe to resume later.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Incorrect Language Icon Shown for a C++ program

Problem description and business impact Using AD 5.0.1 with the special build server patch for USAA Dynamic Calls. In the attached example PDF, GxxxxxI is a C++ program which AD is not currently able to analyze. The Callgraph is displaying this pr...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

An unknown (to the project) program is reported as Cobol

Since the project was not known by the compiler we assume that the program type was COBOL.Please see development item 16743 for additional information.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Build Server - more progress information

When working with ChangemanZMF (in this case) the baseline download completes and the Build Client is doing some sort of processing but the customer is not able to determine what is occurring or if the Build is in a loop.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support in ADDI for program aliases created at linkedit

Client is requesting support for program aliases. Currently, programs that are aliases are not represented in the ADDI analysis such as transaction or job call graphs.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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