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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

ADDI cannot generate metadata for COBOL stored procedures

Ford has hundreds of COBOL/Db2 Stored procedures. They would like to modernize these stored procedures using Watsonx Code Assistant for Z(WCAZ), but since ADDI is unable to generate metadata for Stored Procedures, WCAZ is unable to refactor or tra...

Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...

Filter the graphs screen

Could it be possible to filter the screen like the graph inventory? The purpose is to get a screen that will be more fit for the users needs. It could be a good assets also for WCA4z.

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for type when syncronizing configuration members

When using ADDI ADDI syncronization feature its possible to add Configuration/IMST_PGM as Virtual Folder/Type but when it's added to build client it's always added with default type CSD. This means that every member added thru syncronization featu...

Zookeeper ACL is requested for security reasons

Security scans have discovered that the ADDI-Server has a securtity vulnerabilty: Apache Zookeeper Common/Default Nodes Accessible Without ACL port 2181/tcp. Apache ZooKeeper is essentially a centralized service for distributed systems to a hierar...

Application Discovery Configuration Admin dashboard login with smartcard/client certificate(CAC)

Hi,Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence version 6.1.3 introduced authentication possibility in Application Discovery Configuration Admin dashboards. But it's implemented today through ldap userid/pw. Passwords are not recommended way fo...

Expand to support the Enterprise

I would love to see ADDI expanded to support the Enterprise. This would require 2 new / expanded products. 1. ADDI for Non-Mainframe Applications - This would use WAZI Analyze to support Java, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, etc. 2. Enterprise Analysi...

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration