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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...

RFE on ADDI

1. ADDI integration with Control M2. ADDI integration with TMON for CICS (for performance data analysis described using Omegamon for CICS)3. ADDI integration with GIT / Bitbucket as the SCM

Data encryption between AD Build Client/AD Configuration Build and AD Connect

Data encryption between AD Build Client/AD Configuration Build and AD Connect.

Automated for ADDI administration

To reduce AD administration, a command line interface for all the admin functions for Application Discovery.

AD authetication and aauthorisation

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate when connecting to the AD services. Client rules says that user authentication should be done by means of SSO based on Kerberos or SAML. This same SSO credentials should also be used when accessing th...

PDS SYNCRONISATION NEEDS TO SUPPORT MIXED SOURCE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has mixed source types in their PDSes, i.e. it contain various types of z/OS source files such as Cobol, Assembler within the same PDS. Currently, the PDS syncronisation cannot a...

Implement Orient Database on Mainframe

Currently, IBM AD has the option of implementing the metadata data on z/OS (instead of on a Windows Server platform) in DB2 (instead of SQL Server). This allows the User to keep the various z/OS artifacts on the Mainframe. However, the "Orient Dat...

Build Dashboard

Create a Dashboard showing the "complete-ness" of a Project.

Provide ability to manually clean up corrupted AD projects

Parts of a project's configuration may be lost or corrupted for various reasons (accidental repository database deletion, etc.), which can leave the project's name appearing in IBM AD's configuration and particularly in Build Configuration gui, wh...

Dynamic Variable Program calls

Allow for batch method of updating dynamic call programs