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Application Discovery

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AD Build Client, be able to scan multiple PDS at the same time using one single AD Build interface.

In AD 5.1.03, during the project build process, the Settings on AD Build Client, be able to scan multiple PDS at the same time using one single AD Build interface.

Flowcharts and complexity reports based on Control-M scheduling definitions

The manuals on Application Discovery mention Control-M data can be loaded. But today, Application Discovery does not have Control-M support in graphs, flowcharts or complexity reports. For our batch cycles we want to have flowcharts to see our job...

AD zOS agent has to run in same LPAR as OPC/TWS controler

The AD zOS Connect for Mainframe agent has to run in the same LPAR as the TWS/OPC controler. If the TWS/OPC controler is relocated to another LPAR or TWS/OPC information is wanted for a TWS/OPC controler running in another LPAR then contact to the...

Create Project in Batch

Provide a batch function to create a Project for artifacts that are stored in CA/Endevor.

Assembler branches need to be supported

LOAD EP=MyProg or svc 8 st r0,aMyProg 1) l r2,aMyProg CALL (r2),(xxx,yyy,zzz),MF=(E,xWork),VL 2) l r15,aMyProg bassm/balr/basr r14,r15 3) ATTACH EPLOC=(R2),ECB=(R3),PARAM= ((R4)), * MF=(E,(R5)),SF=(E,(R6)) 4) link EP=MyProg LINK SF=(E,LLINK2),MF=(...

Indicator for Build Process

There is no indicator showing where the Build process is at or what is occurring in the process.

Change AD Batch Server to automatically tolerate multiple projects serially or simultaneously

Using AD Batch Server 5.0.4.2, if multiple projects are built or rebuilt (perhaps after a code upgrade) and Batch Server is then started and detects that multiple projects are in in need of being processed, the resulting processing can exceed the ...

String search does not work for special characters like single quote (and some other)

When trying to search for string f.e. PROGRAM search works fine. However if we would like to do search for 'PROGRAM' string search does not give any result. The same thing is when using regex search [\x27]PROGRAM[\x27]. This is important as someti...

MQ support when called from subroutine

Please enhance ADDI to support MQ when variables involved in MQ statement are declared and resolved in one program and MQ calls is made from another program

Assembler Macro expansion feature

We are told that IBM is working on a Macro expansion feature and that this will be available in a future AD release.We do not have any visibility of this future release so we are raising a RFE to track. AD works fine with assembler INCLUDES but no...