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Add report to ADDI

Would like to have ADDI generate a report that counts the number of mainframe files in the ADDI repository, only the number of individual files, NOT the number of uses, where used, how used, size, etc. As an example- file numberPO 256PS 12341DA 16...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Application entry point identification

We are using a generic wrapper as a front end to our business applications. This front end uses COBOL calls, no LINK This makes the current entry point identification impossible for us. The real application identification is within a header in the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Not under consideration

CICS TS - Auditing CEMT commands

Auditing system programming interface commands generates messages which are directed to the CADS transient data queue.At the moment only partial data are written in SMF RACF records, insufficient to build a security audit log from this source. To ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - multiple lists

When build the AD repository with information from the CICS CSD file, the current implementation seems to limit the tool to read from 1 single DFHCSDUP LIST command. In many cases an application runs in multiple CICS regions (for workload manageme...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SSRANGE option to omit Reference Modification from range checking

Add an SSRANGE sub-option that omits COBOL Reference Modification from range checking.
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

allowing sorting of members in MVS DataSets

Sorting members in DataSets is very useful - for example sorting by change date to see recently changed members. The current state makes navigation a lot more difficult.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS java/lang/OutOfMemoryError Out Of Memory OOM

When too many Operations are chosen, the job executing DFHWS2LS gets error message "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError"The problem is that it doesn't take very many operations to be "too many". Also, there is not guidance on how many operations can be inc...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration