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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Windows Powershell Script to split source files into COBOL src/COPYBOOKS/ directories etc

We need a powershell script, so it will work in windows that utilizes the existing RTCz source code analyzer (java: com.ibm.dmh.scan.classify.jar), to split up a directory of various types of IBM Mainframe Source files into COBOL SRC, COBOL COPYBO...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery Flowcharts and Program Flow should have source file name at top

If flowcharts and program flows are exported to a file, it would be helpful to know the original source file name (COBOL, PLI) for clarity, placing the name of the source file as a text box at the top of the image file.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Dataset reports, Dataset flow graph need to show the relationships between datasets when read and write is done through HOGAN

Currently the Dataset reports and Dataset flow graph is unable to show the relationships between dataset when the read and write is performed through Hogan activities. It is important for this feature to be enabled when read and write is performed...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Add report to ADDI

Would like to have ADDI generate a report that counts the number of mainframe files in the ADDI repository, only the number of individual files, NOT the number of uses, where used, how used, size, etc. As an example- file numberPO 256PS 12341DA 16...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Request to update IBM explorer for zOS to support wildcard filters in middle like AAA*BB*C

During impact analysis, When we try to filter the jobs in Job usage inventory .1. When we use the wildcard as CAU* , it is populating all the jobs where the job name starts with CAU. please find the screenshot. <CAU_Wildcard.png>2. When we t...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence 1 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - multiple lists

When build the AD repository with information from the CICS CSD file, the current implementation seems to limit the tool to read from 1 single DFHCSDUP LIST command. In many cases an application runs in multiple CICS regions (for workload manageme...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to SQL Database from AD Analyze Client
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client

Direct access to OrientDB from AD Analyze Client.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Add additional report to view the unused variables in a program

Is it possible to see the unused variables in the program? Variables which are just declared and never used in the program. Currently developer can be able to see the unused procs in the program in report "unused routines within program".
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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