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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 10, 2025

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call graph. For example, some want to include the middleware, while others do not.

Currently, to hide the middleware, we need to configure the call/macro APIs. This configuration applies both at the project level and at build time. As a result, we have to build the same code in multiple projects to meet the different UI view requirements.

It would make much more sense to be able to create profiles that control how users see the data. For example, we could have a "business application developer" profile, which would exclude middleware programs so the developer could see I/O dependencies directly from the application program. For a "middleware developer" profile, we would include all modules in the call tree, including the middleware.

Benefits:

  • We would only need to build one project for an application and could maintain the profile configuration for the view globally.
  • Developers could also set up customized profiles according to their needs.
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool