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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Batch load of Annotations

Provide a facility to load the Annotations DB in batch.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under 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

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 - JDBC Driver

Product requires DB2 Connect instead of using JDBC driver.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - DDL for install/customization

The ADDI product internally generates and executes the DDL required for product installation. It is our requirement that we customize and install any and all DDL for all vendor products.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support native SOCKS proxy configuration

With the integration to WatsonX Code Assistant, connection to DB2 on Cloud is needed. Often the ADDI server is required to be on-premises for security reasons and this is inside a firewalled environment. If the software contained native support fo...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under 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

PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules

Enhancement in the "Field Expansion Report" - Including JCL as well

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and the "Field expansion report" shows all the Programs, but doesn't show the JCLs using those programs. It shows the file descriptors in the program but not flagging the JCLs using those programs as impacted.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under 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...