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Application Discovery

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Programmatic prerequisite/configuration checker for Application Discovery Server machines

Paraphrasing colleague Roberto C after a recent issue where a WinSrv 2012 R2 machine didn't have certain Windows patches and didn't have Visual C++ components that were apparently required by Application Discovery Build's installation program for ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI: Communication between AD Client and MSQL DB should be done exclusively via AD Services

For the analysis of artifacts and the display of results in the AD client, the communication runs via the AD services on a Windows server and not directly to the MS SQL server. From a security point of view, the analyzed data must not be accessed ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL is a group variable

We have found that ADDI doesn't resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL ( Batch, CICS ) is a group variable.
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Cross Application Service should be enabled for DB2 on z/OS

ADDI has the capability to analyze Cross Applications. Unfortunately this feature is not supported for DB2 on z/OS. We would like to have the feature implemented for DB2 on z/OS as well.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Getting z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode

To allow z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode, this removes the need to connect ADDI to z/OS directly (online). Sites that do not allow direct connection between ADDI and z/OS cannot use ADDI for API analysis (z/OS Connect...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Dataset flow graph support for Compuware File-Aid utility

We use File-aid batch utilities extensively in our batch jobs. AD's dataset flow does not support File-aid and therefore looks broken. This RFE is created as agreed with IBM staff KTIMOTHY@jp.ibm.com and yiplf@sg.ibm.com refer TS004447144 for details
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Application Discovery - Handling of special characters in search file function

Function 'search in files' in application discovery doesn't retrive the special characters strings/words from the source base. There were few instance where there is need to perform scan based on the leading/trailing quote(single or double) and/or...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Update annotations via API

Annotations on artifacts and AD projects should be able to be changed via an API. Currently, annotations can only be set and changed via the preprocessor step in the Build Client or manually in the IDE integration. If annotation represents meta in...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

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