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Application Discovery

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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

Manual resolution for COBOL programs when there are multiple PDS members having the same name in the COBOL source as PROGRAM-ID

For an ordinary COBOL compiler in z/OS, there can be mismatch between member name in the PDS and program name (PROGRAM-ID name) in the source. Like in our case we have have 4 programs that are:PDS member name is PROG1 and PROGRAM-ID name PROG0PDS ...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under 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.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

AD Analyze Client authorization and authentication using client certificate

Product get more security features if this option would be available. Idea is to have AD Analyze Client to be able to authorize and authenticate to server using client certificates.
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Configuration of the file types to be examined in the program callgraph

Currently, when the "Program callgraph" is executed on a program, all calls are examined, so that the files, programs and SQL Table are examined and displayed in the diagrammm. The analysis of all data types takes a lot of time and the performance...
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Extract call graph programs in hierarchical formats for better readability/analysis

In certain situations if the driver program having nested calls (from level0 … to .. level10 for example), then as a user it is good to have all these programs listed in the proper hierarchical format that would render easy understanding and bette...
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

Display full graph with steps, programs and data sets in a batch job.

For visualizing the JCL of a batch job we can now choose between these Mainframe Graphs in AD: - 'Job Flow', which lists the steps within the job, but not the programs.- 'Job Callgraph', which shows the different programs being called, but does no...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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