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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Improve authorisation model

Allow central access management:- Limit visibility of projects for users / groups- Disable / Enable features for specific users (e.g. no flow-chart)- ...

PL/I Impact Analysis

Provide full support for PL/I Impact Analysis Report (like available for COBOL)

Git support in AD

RFE opened on behalf of BNPP BNPP would like to load all the necessary software artifacts from Git (source code, configuration files) instead of loading them from z/OS (Endevor, subsystems definitions, etc...). As Git is going to be main referenti...

Dashboard showing trends/drifts created by applications maintenance

RFE opened on behalf on BNPP BNPP would like to dispose of a feature to evaluate the differences of CPU consumption between two versions of a program or an application, to be able to take additionnal decisions during a DevOps cycle (optimization o...

Check feature in command line

We need to have a automatic check in command line because currenlty, all checking are manual, so it's too long for making all the check one by one for every project for the administrator.

"Using Exec DLI" settings option (Build Client) in command line

We need to have "Using Exec DLI" settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with this option. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too l...

IMS DB settings option (Build Client) in command line

We need to have IMS DB settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these modes. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.

Language setting for ADI

The language for the display in ADI can currently only be changed via the browser setting. The language setting via this setting means that all websites (not just those of ADI) are displayed in a different language

provide call chain analysis via API and provide the results in JSON

For the connection of internal processes, the provision of an API is necessary to start a usage analysis.The API receives a file with artifact names and AD project as input parameters, the search depth and a flag, whether Usages or References or b...

Impact Analysis via ADI

Analysis of the imported resources in AD projects currently only possible via IDE A detailed description of the integration of impact analysis in ADI is available in the Word document