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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
7 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 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
8 months 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 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Capture the architecture of mainframe applications using REST API methods

We have an Architecture Repository to support architecture work related to the business applications. In order to get this Architecture Repository fully functioning that system must be fed with with the data that comes from the systems. Therefore ...
8 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...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Concurrent user login/usage of analyse client with Authentication Server(DEX) enabled in ADDI 6.1.1 i fix version

DEX is used to authenticate users when we login analyse client to perform analysis but currently there is no concurrent login/usage when DEX enabled . it could be very helpful to have options of concurrent login/usage. we have raised IBM case for ...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 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 ...
about 3 years 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,...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to view and track parameter/data flow across program call boundaries in and ADDI Program Call Graph

Providing this capability will help to better assess program dependencies from a parameter/data perspective in a graphical capacity. This becomes important when assessing how to refactor/segment programs into modular COBOL services where parameter...