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Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence

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ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.

AD Authentication & Authorization

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate to the AD Server and Microcsoft SQL Server. At our site, it is required that there is at least authentication from the clients. If possible, we even would go one step further such that user atuthentec...

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

AD usage

Application Discovery should have a capability to track the usage of the AD product. It should be possible to:* measure number of connects to the AD services (to be able to measure # users)- what functions used in AD (graphs,reports,usage)- # inte...

Automate the steps to create, configure, import, and build an AD project (through a batch process)

An automated system and the configuration of an AD project as well as the import of resources and a final build is currently only partially possible.At the moment, the creation of an AD project with certain configurations (such as ProjectName, Pat...

Optimization to check the Cross-Application boxes in AD Configuration Service Admin

We would like to have the possibility of checking the box to add Cross-application in projects at once (without going through all the projects). Or that the box is checked by default when creating the project. Or have a MS-DOS command line to auto...

improve performance for large projects by days during MAKE request for API resolution (HDI) step

Currently our project MAKE takes days to complete. This is due to AD build process calling the API resolution (HDI - Hogan Discovery Interface from DXC) for each source element in the project even if it has not changed. This takes us about 58 hour...

String search does not work for special characters like single quote (and some other)

When trying to search for string f.e. PROGRAM search works fine. However if we would like to do search for 'PROGRAM' string search does not give any result. The same thing is when using regex search [\x27]PROGRAM[\x27]. This is important as someti...

CSD import (enhance ADDI to work with CICS definitions from multiple groups)

Our CICS definition file (CSD) uses different groups for different CICS resource types. We have one for Transactions in Program Control Table (PCT) and a separate group for defining Programs (PPT). If Transaction and Programs are in different Grou...

Analyzing COBOL-Copybooks used via COPY ? REPLACING

When analyzing the usage of a variable, which is declared in an include with a placeholder and is used in the program with the help of Copy .. Replacing, it is important to recognize the name of the include.Currently, when using the variable, the ...