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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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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...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

load Business Rules from external source

We want to load business rules from an external source and have ADI preform the initial linking to code source using the names/terms/keywords in the loaded Business rule. We would also like ADI to identify whether the code was link through the aut...

Add Business rule discovery support for ASM/PLI

We need Business rule discovery for (at least) Assembler

identify PSB programs in PARM and display SAS program names in Job Usage

Here is a summary of this problem: In total there are 15 PROCs calling a PSB XXXXXXXX, the pattern goes like this: PSB1=XXXXXXXX, //STEP04 EXEC PGM=********,REGION=XXXXX, // PARM=(BMP,&PSB1,,,,C00000,,1,'&CKPTID',1, Out of the 15 members o...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improved / Added new features on AD Audit

This RFE focuses on the display of the audit (Audit Service Web GUI). The default sorting is on the date with a sorting from the oldest to the newest. That is, the most recent operations of users are on the last page. It is not practical at all.Co...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Autoinstalled programs

Building the AD repository for a project does not support CICS Autoinstalled programs
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under 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
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

We should able to extract Cross Application Callgraph details in csv format.

Currently, we have functionality to extract Program/Job Callgraph in csv format but we don't have same functionality for Cross Application Callgraph. Cross Application Callgraph are very complex and contains so many details within it. So if we can...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

parallel build client calls

In the case of a large number of AD projects (approx. 500), which contain a different number of mainframe artifacts (up to max. 20000), one call for the creation, import and build of each individual AD project in succession cannot be implemented o...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration