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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Application Discovery - Handling of special characters in search file function

Function 'search in files' in application discovery doesn't retrive the special characters strings/words from the source base. There were few instance where there is need to perform scan based on the leading/trailing quote(single or double) and/or...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support Endevor promotions in CLI

When syncing a project with Endevor thru sync service it's not possible to provide a promotion-list as you are able to to thru GUI in build configuration. This will be an enhancement for automating updates of project that receives source from seve...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Unreferences variables reporting capability

'Unreferenced working-storage variables' report would be nice to have maybe under 'Dead Code Reports' section.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

load Business Rules from external source

We want to load business rules from an external source and have ADI preform the initial linking to code source using the names/terms/keywords in the loaded Business rule. We would also like ADI to identify whether the code was link through the aut...

Add Business rule discovery support for ASM/PLI

We need Business rule discovery for (at least) Assembler

Manual resolution for COBOL programs when there are multiple PDS members having the same name in the COBOL source as PROGRAM-ID

For an ordinary COBOL compiler in z/OS, there can be mismatch between member name in the PDS and program name (PROGRAM-ID name) in the source. Like in our case we have have 4 programs that are:PDS member name is PROG1 and PROGRAM-ID name PROG0PDS ...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

NPID for ADDI app server to SQL server requires Create rights

AD only supports SQL Authentication and not Windows when it comes about the user connecting to the DB Server.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

AD Analyze Client authorization and authentication using client certificate

Product get more security features if this option would be available. Idea is to have AD Analyze Client to be able to authorize and authenticate to server using client certificates.
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Display full graph with steps, programs and data sets in a batch job.

For visualizing the JCL of a batch job we can now choose between these Mainframe Graphs in AD: - 'Job Flow', which lists the steps within the job, but not the programs.- 'Job Callgraph', which shows the different programs being called, but does no...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration