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Enhancement request to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI

Client requested the enhancement to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI.He wants to accelerate understanding by comparing with alias in Japanese specification document and ADDI.If t...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Filter the graphs screen

Could it be possible to filter the screen like the graph inventory? The purpose is to get a screen that will be more fit for the users needs. It could be a good assets also for WCA4z.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Keys or passtickets to connect DB2 server

Currently DB2 server is connected/configured using service id and password in dashboard (-> Configure -> Servers & security tab -> Relational database server). There is requirement to replace DB2 server credentials (service id and pas...

ADDI cannot generate metadata for COBOL stored procedures

Ford has hundreds of COBOL/Db2 Stored procedures. They would like to modernize these stored procedures using Watsonx Code Assistant for Z(WCAZ), but since ADDI is unable to generate metadata for Stored Procedures, WCAZ is unable to refactor or tra...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add PROCs to the Job Call Flow

It would be nice if the PROCs that are called by Jobs were reflected in the Job Call Flow
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for type when syncronizing configuration members

When using ADDI ADDI syncronization feature its possible to add Configuration/IMST_PGM as Virtual Folder/Type but when it's added to build client it's always added with default type CSD. This means that every member added thru syncronization featu...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

AD analyse client and AD server shall coexist with different release levels

Requirement is that the AD analyse client and AD server can coexist with different release levels very much like IDz have implemented their support allowing +-2 release difference. Having this will let us upgrade the server and then gradually upgr...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support Client certificate (mTLS) when fetching z/OS connect info

Increase security by supporting Data Collector to authenticate towards z/OS connect with Client Certificate. Today only basic auth with userid/password is supported. Our shop have z/OS connect setup with Client Certificate only preventing us from ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Added support for DDNAME option in PL/I language %INCLUDE directive

Some of my customers' PL/I programs use the DDNAME option in %INCLUDE directive. These source programs result in errors when analyzed by AD. To avoid the errors, the customers have to modify the source programs. To make this unnecessary, I would l...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration