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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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IMS/DB need to be processed in JCLs

Please see all details in PMR 40939,110,846
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CA7 Directives

AD not accepting CA7 Scheduling directives
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Consideration of all IMS syntaxes

We found following an incident on the tool that some syntaxes, such as CEETLDI, in IMS calls were not supported by the tool. Only the CBLTLDI syntax was supported by the tool. I found this IBM documentation for information :https://www.ibm.com/sup...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Configurable subsystems during application definition in Application Discovery Build Client

Configurable subsystems when defining a new application (project)
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Explore AD project: Display of resource types that have an artifact

It would be better if the folders were named when the AD projects were created and only these could be created. Subsequent creation and deletion should be possible for existing AD projects. With this control, on the one hand, the user can navigate...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

multiple ADLogin on the same client

currently users can only perform an AD login via a workspace. The ADLogin button remains inactive in other workspaces.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

API call for preprocessor integration (Create a new AD-Project)

The automation of existing AD projects (current state) 1. Copy the artifacts in the subfolder of the AD projects2. Generation of the make-bat files3. Parallel execution of the make-bat files The preprocessor integration has to be done manually for...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Selection of individual files from a folder

So far, only the full path to the artifacts from which all files are imported can be specified via the API. Particularly in the case of overlapping storage structures, the artifacts must be copied before installation so that they are correctly imp...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

To enable viewing of JCL Control Cards in AD Analyze Client

National Australia Bank has requested for the ability to view contents of JCL Control Files in the Explore Project functionality or JCL expansion.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration