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Search results: Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

Implement field expansion for ADABAS the same way as DB2

This feature is very important to analyze the impact that we have on the ADABAS database side, the same way we have from DB2. This will improve the view from the Application overall architecture, in order to give a full coverage for the users and ...

Support detection of IMS DB usage in Assembler programs when DL/I calls are performed indirectly via wrapper modules and dynamic calls.

Currently, IMS/DB Usage and Logical Usage reports rely on detecting statement occurrences within program source. In environments using Assembler, it is common to encapsulate IMS access through wrapper modules and dynamic calls (e.g., program → DBA...

Enhance Impact Analysis to display the original parent context of the selected variable

When COBOL variables share the same name across different parent structures, Impact Analysis in AD Analyze Client results do not indicate the original parent context from which the report was started. As analysis expands across structures, this ma...

Increase AD flowchart Resolution for better readability

In the current latest releases(AD 6.1.3 or AD 6.1.4), users can't export the flowchart or call graph images from the analyze client into proper readable format. Indeed AD allows to visualize and navigate the generated artifacts within the eclipse ...

ADDI report performance improvement

As discussed, the time required to generate the reports appears to depend largely on the overall size and depth of the report data. If the internal M&T development team can manage the report scope by breaking it into smaller chunks, the proces...

Enable Sync Support for Check Exclude Configurations

Check Exclude appears to be one of the only Configuration file types that cannot be loaded via Synchronization, and can only be loaded in manually in the Build Client. This is problematic for users who need to load this configuration file into a l...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Future consideration

Missing Components reports need to check across ALL projects for element before marking them as missing.

Mainframe shops share many types of elements especially sub-programs. in my experience Batch application on an LPAR usually share a load library. We need ADDI to be able to look across a list of selected projects before marking an element as missing.

SAS Program Usage Analysis in IBM Application Discovery

Our mainframe environment includes significant SAS batch processing for critical business functions (financial analytics, actuarial reporting, data transformations). Currently, IBM Application Discovery cannot analyze SAS programs to extract: Prog...

Enable project details on Analyze client without accessing AD Dashboard

Hi Team, I have 2 projects ( Main & Resilience ) in Production server. Both the projects are now available on Analyze client at any time . if i want to enable resilience project to be visible in analyze client when i do Make process on Main pr...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Not under consideration

Replace missing icon with new icon for cross application projects

Replace missing icon on the IDZ window with new icon when object is in the cross application list. this will help with looking for the correct missing object in a project.