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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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Ability to configure (remove) subsystems in AD Analyze Client operations

Ability to configure a template, or list of required subsystems, so that only required subsystem functions are displayed.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for NDM steps in JCL

Customer has 700+ NDM steps. And there are around 1000+ files which they send using NDM and needs analysis more frequently to trace it back. The analysis is more frequent and as they are feeds to other systems, understanding and including them in ...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Item Name/Comment/Annotation in Resource Selection List

Provide the option to show a speaking name / description / Annotation per item (program/JCL/proc) already in Resource list view together with the item name.E.g.Column1 - Column2JOB1ABCD - "Start Chain of Processing"PGM1XXX - "Finalize Process Hand...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Automatically populate a Proejct in Build Client

Provide a feature that would automatically open each member of a PDS-like dataset or workstation folder and determine what language that member is, then automatically move it to the correct folder in the Project.Objects where a language type canno...
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Windows Powershell Script to split source files into COBOL src/COPYBOOKS/ directories etc

We need a powershell script, so it will work in windows that utilizes the existing RTCz source code analyzer (java: com.ibm.dmh.scan.classify.jar), to split up a directory of various types of IBM Mainframe Source files into COBOL SRC, COBOL COPYBO...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Application Discovery Flowcharts and Program Flow should have source file name at top

If flowcharts and program flows are exported to a file, it would be helpful to know the original source file name (COBOL, PLI) for clarity, placing the name of the source file as a text box at the top of the image file.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for REXX

Provide support for REXX
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Show more information in graphs (customizable)

Show more information in graphs through color-coding, line thickness, ...- Show program complexity scores in program box (red=complex, green=simple)- Show number of call-statements on connection (bold line = many different calls, light line = only...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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