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Application Discovery

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/fb command shall produce a log file the simmilar as /m1 does

New CLI command introduced in v5.1.0.5 full build in background /fb produces the log file in the same way as using the foreground build client. Would be good that this /fb command would produce the log file in the same manner as /m1 command does n...

Allow for jobs with SCHID=0 to be used as input for CA7 Job Triggering Flow

We would like to be able to see the CA7 Job Triggering Flow for jobs that do not have any Schedule IDs, or trace back to jobs that do not have any Schedule IDs. There are a couple of conditions here that cause jobs to not have schedule ids defined...

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

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.

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...

Support for PROCESS and RETURNING statements for COBOL in AD Build client compiler

Need support for PROCESS and RETURNING statements for COBOL in AD Build client compiler.When compiling some programs found in JKEBank demo, they aren't builded. Application Discovery 5.0.1 running on a Windows Server does not acceptPROCESS stateme...

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...

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...

US Section 508 compliance - colour blindness

Add "hover" capability in the Graph View for colour blind developers.

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...