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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Manual resolution for COBOL programs when there are multiple PDS members having the same name in the COBOL source as PROGRAM-ID

For an ordinary COBOL compiler in z/OS, there can be mismatch between member name in the PDS and program name (PROGRAM-ID name) in the source. Like in our case we have have 4 programs that are:PDS member name is PROG1 and PROGRAM-ID name PROG0PDS ...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD Analyze Client authorization and authentication using client certificate

Product get more security features if this option would be available. Idea is to have AD Analyze Client to be able to authorize and authenticate to server using client certificates.
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 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...
about 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
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Configuration of the file types to be examined in the program callgraph

Currently, when the "Program callgraph" is executed on a program, all calls are examined, so that the files, programs and SQL Table are examined and displayed in the diagrammm. The analysis of all data types takes a lot of time and the performance...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Start AD usage analysis from IDz editors

Currently, a developer has to copy the variable or section name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name must be pasted and the analysis "Use in program" started.

Extract call graph programs in hierarchical formats for better readability/analysis

In certain situations if the driver program having nested calls (from level0 … to .. level10 for example), then as a user it is good to have all these programs listed in the proper hierarchical format that would render easy understanding and bette...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

Add functional group column in "Project explorer" view

Have a new column to group multiple projects in "Project explorer" view.Be able to set up the group to put a list of projectsFunctionality for administrators only (AD Configuration Servers Admin for example).Please see file attachement.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

ADDI: Recognition of an IMS database call that takes place in a home-grown interface

1. Our dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved:CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03Dummy-P04Dummy-P05Dummy-P062. Our dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO E...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration