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Application Discovery

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Enhancement request to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI

Client requested the enhancement to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI.He wants to accelerate understanding by comparing with alias in Japanese specification document and ADDI.If t...
3 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

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.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Operational CPU and Sysplex should be selectable

Currently when Retrieving Operational for a new project the CPU Sysplex data is automatically downloaded, it would be nice if this was added to the Build Configuration as an option in case it needs to be refreshed or if we do not want that informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Filtering Operational Information

The Operational information for a large enterprise environment is quite large and much of the data it contains is not relevant from an application level. e.g. The DB2 data tries to download the entire DB2 catalogue which contains not only APPL rel...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

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...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Table or file to add user AD groups for workspace access

We have large number of ADDI projects. We setup security of each project manually. As per current procedure we have to first add AD group under Admin portal -> configure -> user groups and then need to map that group with project ADDI worksp...
24 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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