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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Support Client certificate (mTLS) when fetching z/OS connect info

Increase security by supporting Data Collector to authenticate towards z/OS connect with Client Certificate. Today only basic auth with userid/password is supported. Our shop have z/OS connect setup with Client Certificate only preventing us from ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Added support for DDNAME option in PL/I language %INCLUDE directive

Some of my customers' PL/I programs use the DDNAME option in %INCLUDE directive. These source programs result in errors when analyzed by AD. To avoid the errors, the customers have to modify the source programs. To make this unnecessary, I would l...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Ability to save the project analysis in ADDI and continue working on it at any time

After doing some analysis like generating the graph or report. when developer close and reopen the ADDI/IDZ application, all the research was done has disappeared, The solution would be to download the graph and report externally to the local driv...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

JCL includes could be visible on Analyze client for analysis

Hi Team, If there is a option to analyze JCL include usage on JCL's and INCLUDE's usage on JOBS will be more beneficial for a project team. Currently we can anaylze procs, programs, datasets usage in jobs...please amend the process to analyze INCL...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Build Selection Batch Command Line

The IBM Application Discovery Build Client allows us to Build a selection of entities.However, we can't do this with a batch command line.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Option to download list / Summary of all programs in impact analysis report.

Currently Impact analysis report option, search in files option gives the list of programs in CSV format where the program name is embedded with the complete path of the program. Instead would like to see the list of programs/modules impacted whic...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Program flow can eliminate EXIT para which doesn't have any code statement.

This will reduce cluttering of program flow by removing unwanted EXIT para in program flow. Dont show EXIT para which doesnt have any code in it except EXIT statement.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 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...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Table or file to add user AD groups for workspace access

We have large number of ADDI projects. We setup security of each project manually. As per current procedure we have to first add AD group under Admin portal -> configure -> user groups and then need to map that group with project ADDI worksp...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration