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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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ADDI Analyze Client - copybook variables should be visible to choose for Impact Report related to fields.

Issue: Inside the project, if we select Cobol Program as resource type and if we choose one Cobol program and click on Impact reports, it is not listing out Copybook variables. It is only listing out working storage variables. Enhancement Request:...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Animator feature in Application Discovery

Request for animator-like feature in Application Discovery that allows users of the Analyst client to step thru the program source code as if they are in debugging mode. When decision point is reached such as IF/ELSE condition, the system will pau...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

The special view to show both the code coverage for each line and the change

We want to request to you to add the special view to Analyzing code coverage of ADI to display both the code coverage for each line and the change.We expect that ADI user can display this special view with clicking the value of "Change %" of Line ...

Identify Copybook Usage in zOS Connect API with Application Discovery

What we're looking for is a way to identify potential conflicts when a Copybook is in play in either our MVS system (home-grown Host SCM Tool) or outside of the mainframe in OMVS and or the z/OS Connect environment.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Improve Report Performance

On large applications the report process does not complete.

Different graphic presentation for API translation and direct way

AD has the API facility and show the relationship in such call graph. They use the same graphic presentation that will confuse user some.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Build to provide support for REXX

Support REXX and CLIST
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PREPROCESSOR EXTENSIBILITY

PREPROCESSOR EXTENSIBILITY relies on source code and preprocessor code. Customer must specify the changes by line and column number. IBM has access to rational functions. The preprocessor extensibility can be done automatically by having a rationa...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Request that we wish to implement the re-run function of validation processing

Sometimes validationCheck processing may result in an error. In previous versions, it was possible to manually re-run. I am in trouble because I can not re-run in the latest version.Please create the following mechanism;When the validasion fails, ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

CHANGEMAN PACKAGE NEEDS TO SUPPORT DIVERSE FILE TYPES

Customer (Northwestern Mutual Life), running Application Discovery 5.0.3.1 has CHANGEMAN packages that contain various types of z/OS source files: PLI, PLI INCLUDE, JCL, etc. Currently, the build client cannot separate elements of package into the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration