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Application Discovery

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AD - v6.0.1 - CCS project monitor field doesn't work in the sorted order of time duration (Eg; build progress)

In AD version v6.0.1 after build or post build processes there is no facility to display long time consuming build progress projects from the CCS admin console. In the top right corner there is "status field" that only filters status alone that do...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Keep current project available and discoverable while doing a Build/MAKE

Keep the current ADDI project available for discovery while it is rebuild or a MAKE is run. Only make the new project image discoverable once all phases of the build completed. User impact: This prevents bad design decisions or failed discover act...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the JCL Parser to enable ControlM specific code

We have some JCL that contains some ControlM specific code which are decode by ControlM before submission. Some of those JCL can't be add in AD because the JCL parser does not understand it. In our example (TS009034119) the build client tells us t...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under 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

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for Cobol Report Writer statements

Cobol Report Writer statements are not being parsed in ADDI. This is impacting the results when needing to check where variables are used. The variables used in report writer report is not shown as being used in the where used
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

WebServices support in AD

RFE opened on behalf of BNNP BNPP would like to load information describing z/OS Webservices in the AD datamodel. BNPP would like to perform queries (graphs and reports) integrated with other standard AD data. The WebServices that should be fully ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration