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Application Discovery

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no specification of the extension for includes

With the language-specific program structure usage, the extension can be derived from the context of the action.For the Explore AD project from the selected resource type. In the Include Usage analysis, a corresponding field would have to be inser...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Support of LINKB modules in AD

We got the final update from AD development regarding the support for LINKB Modules as below:- "Unfortunately there is no other solution for this case, with PgmModuleMap.txt file all JCL flow was automatically pointing to the right programs. We do...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Explorer Project - How to identify pgm belonging to the Project from the ones belonging to other projects?

AD development confirmed that the requirement to distinguish the sourcesthat are directly present inside a project ( with source code available)and the sources that are being called by the programs inside the project ( with no source and path in p...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

AD builder - Dynamic resolution of values transferred through pointers (addresses)

System: Application Discovery Client Product We want to use Application Discovery for all of our z/OS applications. Description: Application Discovery Build Client does not have support compilation for dynamic resolution of values transferred thro...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration