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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year 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-...

CA7 - include Front end schedule timings in graphs

In the AD CA7 graphs, include the scheduling & timings to the Front End jobs. This information is in the CA7 report file ingested by ADDI. (see attached email)
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Shared Resources Report - add more details

On the Shared Resources Reports - include more information and group together. For example: on the JCL Physical Dataset shared resources report - include information on the report or allow for a detailed report to show all the JCL & datasets e...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Listing down all the Macros in the ADDI project similar to Includes please

Can we get the option of listing down all the Macros in the project similar to Includes please? Similar to Cobol copybooks we need option of listing down all the Macros. This RFE has been created as discussed with Yip (yiplf@sg.ibm.com) & Tim ...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD - Support for GSAM file usage

Non-Hogan programs frequently use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

VS Code plugin for AD Analyze client

We have spent a lot of time trying to make AD Analyze client work with IDZ without any success. we then resorted to having a separate installation of AD analyze client with IBM Explorer.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration