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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Display of the number of results determined in a usage analysis

Currently, the number of results found is not displayed in a usage analysis. The number can only be determined by manual counting. Especially when a usage analysis is started over several AD projects, all AD projects must first be opened in the tr...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Authentication Server (DEX) for Concurrent users login/usage at a time.

Authentication Server (DEX) is present in our current ADDI version 6.1.1 for Authenticate users but if we enable DEX concurrent users cannot use analyse client(zos explorer) at a time. below is the IBM case we raise for reference TS013538333 Pleas...

Missing CICS transactions

There were some transactions which were not getting reflected in ADDI so we contacted UIBM team for the same and they have provided below response.Please find bellow L3 conclusions:- I have started with transaction XF54 that is mapped with program...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

BUILD CLIENT SHOULD RUN AS AN "OLD SCHOOL OMVS/ISPF" application "WHEN" build parser is rewritten to JAVA

Parser utilizes ZIIP for JAVA parsing, the source code can remain on zOS, BUILD CLIENT does not need graphics....this is a lot simpler than running build on another platform.
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Evolution of occurs numbers in program IMS DB import

The same like in the PMR.We have an issue with the occurs numbers in program IMS DB report. This is a consequences of the counting of every programs.After discussion with AD Architect, we have a solution by adding two columns : inner occurs (just ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

AD build Client - Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language

Support of Decisions mechanism for PL/1 language in Application Discovery Build Client.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

EZStrieve support required

EZStrieve support required
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support resource in different groups in CSD parser

ADDI CSD parser to support CICS resource defined in different groups.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Public API for Application Discovery Parser and Impact Analysis

Application Discovery is good at understanding the overall mainframe application platform. It creates a repository of parsed mainframe components and also cross linkages and dependencies. Since Application Discovery parses the COBOL program and st...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration