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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Add details for multiple occurrences of the same library name in the Add Files From Mainframe dialogue in Build Client

Customer is seeing the same library appear multiple times in the Add Files From Mainframe dialogue. The behavior is expected as no more details are retrieved from maninframe (and this is how the differentiation could be done in interface).At AmEx ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Options to have a more complete visizuation of a program

Would like to have options in the various Callgraphs Wizards to generate a full execution sequence of a program showing (for example) JCL > Program with all data elements.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Configure log locations for Application Discovery components

Allow the location of logs generated by Application Discovery server components to be configured by an Application Discovery administrator.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD to support TWS for Distributed

Provide TWS / IWS distributed support in addition to mainframe
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Enhance Anotations Support

Allow mechanism for adding Annotations en Mass
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for CA JobTrac

AD to include support for CA Job Trac
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD Field expansion report not showing any PL/I members in the list

AD field expansion report only display COBOL members, not showing any PL/I members in the list. Please implement this feature for PL/I also.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Build Client Retrieve Pause Function

Users want the ability to pause download/retrievals from the mainframe to resume later.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Incorrect Language Icon Shown for a C++ program

Problem description and business impact Using AD 5.0.1 with the special build server patch for USAA Dynamic Calls. In the attached example PDF, GxxxxxI is a C++ program which AD is not currently able to analyze. The Callgraph is displaying this pr...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration