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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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CA7 In Memory process with Wildcards

ANZ would like to have a selection field holding Job Schedule wildcard option in the Application Discovery, CA7 Workload Automation tab of the z/OS configuration window of the Build Server.ANZ has over 140000 job schedules and it would be better t...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD to provide support for C

Provide support for the C programming language at the same level as COBOL and PL/I
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

As a WA user, I would like to have an option to open a program call graph from a program file's node menu

From the Fiducia rep:- Clicking on menu doesn't allow to open a call graph, only view properties in Source File graph view- Will need design for this option flow (see number 4 in the list found in the attached subsequent restrictions due double ar...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 4 Not under consideration

AD Alanlyze Client for Apple Mac

Need to have a version of the Analyze Client for use with Apple Mac devices.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery: Add support duplicated section names on COBOL

Currently Application Discovery does not supportduplicated section names on COBOL, as they are saved into the database as a parent structure for the statements contained.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Analyze client showing repeated job steps in the job flow graph

The job flow graph shows has the steps repeated multiple times. After investigation it was found out that it is happening due to two reasons:1. Less details are presented on the jobflow graph by design (program name or dataset name is not shown by...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

AD support data driven application

The core banking application is data-driven, which program execution flow is controlled dynamically by the configuration data store in DB2 table. Now AD static code scan facility can not support such use case.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Customer: NEXT (retailer in UK) wants to use "synchronization file" on NATURAL source code

Customer (NEXT clothing retailer in UK) uses Natural source code and wishes to use synchronization to update the source code. Customer currently has to do manual updates to source code which is labor intensive.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Source Files: unclear if there is flowchart/program flow graphs even if COBOL/PLI source file is listed in analyze client UI

After a build, COBOL/PLI source files appear in AD analyze for user to view flowcharts, program flow, module call graph. There is no indicator that a Source File has the flowchart, and program flow graph, so user would need to do trial and error. ...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Target program not resolved when DB2 SYSTSIN executes common program with actual program in PARMS generic

We are undertaking a POT for Tesco using their CR (Continuous Replenishment) application. All their DB2 Batch JCL executes DB2 programs by executing common routing program JJ0RUN, passing it the actual program to be executed by the PARMS parameter...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration