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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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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...

Upgrade using AD plugin is not a good experience

Customer has issues with AD plugin upgrade as it has to be locally pushed to every desktop for users for the product. If a user accidentally updates the AD plugin and if other users are at a different level , then the project is corrupted. Custome...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI: dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers

the dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved: CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03 Dummy-P04 Dummy-P05 Dummy-P06
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph for DL1 resource can be improved for certain ROLB scenario.

When IMS online program has the direct ROLB call without being accessing database segments, then AD call graph is shown as if program access multiple segments from the DBD. It looks to be little misleading from user aspect though the order of IMS-...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI: Communication between AD Client and MSQL DB should be done exclusively via AD Services

For the analysis of artifacts and the display of results in the AD client, the communication runs via the AD services on a Windows server and not directly to the MS SQL server. From a security point of view, the analyzed data must not be accessed ...
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL is a group variable

We have found that ADDI doesn't resolve dynamic calls if the variable used in the CALL ( Batch, CICS ) is a group variable.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration