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Application Discovery

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Request for Enhancement to include Dynamic Name Resolution in AD

Dynamic name resolution should be supported in AD77 DPATMCIS VALUE 'CARDLN01' SET DPATMCIS TO TRUE.MOVE +0004 TO DL-COMMAREA-LENGTH.EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM (DL-LINK-TO-MODULE) COMMAREA (DL-SUBROUTINE-COMMAREA) LENGTH (DL-COMMAREA-LENGTH) RESP (DL-R...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for SAS (Statistical Analysis System) language

Public Bank Berhad has completed PoC with AD version 5.0.1. They have a sizable application portfolio that was developed using the SAS reporting langauge. They therefore would like to request for AD support for SAS language.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

EGL language support

EGL support in AD
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow inline-modification of diagram properties

When navigating complex diagrams (especially callgraphs), it would be great to change various properties of the diagram without having to go through the wizard again. For example, "Callgraph Limit" could be changed directly within the graph. In ad...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Allow import of annotations from the source code

Some customers already document important aspects of a program in the source code (sometimes using specific conventions). For them, it would be great to have AD import those specific comments into ADDI (maybe by specifying a certain "comment patte...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show annotations in the various reports

If customers use annotations, they would like to see them when generating reports (e.g. Impact Analysis, Complexity, ...) so they have the documentation available directly within the report.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow for use of Open Source DBs

Allow the use of Open Source DB as an option to AD and ADDI
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Orphaned Components Report

Provide a list of Project components that do not currently connect to other application components.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add Multiple CSD file input sipport

When multiple CSD report input files are placed in the Configuration folder, onle the last one in the list is processed. . The previous ones are processed but objects are not created in teh MS-SQL repository.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support C/C++ (CPP)

Support the C/C++ (CPP) programming language
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration