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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Know the name of the project where a component is located

When analyzing a project (e.g. a program call graph) with components called (or calling), if a component is not in the project (no source available) then we don't know which project it is in.One possibility might be to display the project name in ...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Please add JCL include into explore project tab

The JCL includes are loaded into the AD project, it would be good if it can be viewed in the explore project tab under the resource type drop down list. I'm aware the JCL includes can be viewed in search in files, but I had to only select JCL incl...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Grouping of AD projects as a quick start / filter

With a grouping of certain AD projects to a topic / filter, a quick access can be made for different analyzes on recurring AD projects. The grouping based on a filter criterion (name) provides an improved overview in the Explore View, especially f...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

ADDI: Communication between AD Client and MSQL DB should be done exclusively via AD Services

For the analysis of artifacts and the display of results in the AD client, the communication runs via the AD services on a Windows server and not directly to the MS SQL server. From a security point of view, the analyzed data must not be accessed ...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

AD - v6.0.1 - CCS project monitor field doesn't work in the sorted order of time duration (Eg; build progress)

In AD version v6.0.1 after build or post build processes there is no facility to display long time consuming build progress projects from the CCS admin console. In the top right corner there is "status field" that only filters status alone that do...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Support for Cobol Report Writer statements

Cobol Report Writer statements are not being parsed in ADDI. This is impacting the results when needing to check where variables are used. The variables used in report writer report is not shown as being used in the where used
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Update documention for replacing DEX

The documentation for ADDI state that DEX could be replaced with any other auth provider supporting Oauth2, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.2?topic=configurations-step-4-optional-configuring-authentication-server-dex It doesn't state that the...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Getting z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode

To allow z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode, this removes the need to connect ADDI to z/OS directly (online). Sites that do not allow direct connection between ADDI and z/OS cannot use ADDI for API analysis (z/OS Connect...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration