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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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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

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

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

Support Endevor promotions in CLI

When syncing a project with Endevor thru sync service it's not possible to provide a promotion-list as you are able to to thru GUI in build configuration. This will be an enhancement for automating updates of project that receives source from seve...
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support userid/password when syncronizing members thru CLI

It's possible to use userid/password when fetching from z/os using GUI/BuildClientConfiguration but it's not supported when syncing thru CLI. To add this option in CLI would mean it's possible to automate updates with authentication enabled in AD-...

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

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

ADDI: Disabling logging on the client if no settings exist

When I start a new workspace and no settings for ADDI are set in the preferences, then the log is written full with trace information. In the workspace and in the product itself no tracing settings are set.Not only the performance suffers but also...