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Idea / RFE Review. Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement request. We agree that a UX based implementation to help a user reassign subsets of independent resources into one or more new Application projects (and also assign these applications to specific separate integration servers / working directories) would be helpful for users looking to modernize artifacts which were originally placed into integration projects prior to the existence of Applications, which as you may know first came into existence as part of WMBv8 released in 2011. We also note however that this requirement is very similar to the existing "Convert to application" wizard which is already available in the Toolkit and has been around for several releases since this time period (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/11.0.0?topic=scratch-converting-existing-projects-applications-libraries). Given this, it would be helpful to understand any particular aspect of this existing tool which you feel could be improved as part of any future new initiative in this area ... When deciding how to assign your flows and their associated artifacts into particular applications and libraries there will typically be an element of human decision making involved in the process - some users might prefer to group flows which all contribute to a single business purpose, or whose ownership lies with a particular team in their organisation, or perhaps on technical lines based upon transport protocol, or style of the message flow? Identifying these kind of factors through automated analysis of the artifacts themselves is particularly difficult as it is likely to vary widely between users, so we are open to suggestions for how such a tool should do this ... perhaps based on naming convention of the flows? The phrasing of the request sounded like you were hoping for something automated or scripted as opposed to a drag-and-drop based UX, so this kind of feedback would be particularly helpful as most discussions we have had on this topic with our customers as part of the Early Experience Program have favoured a UX approach where a human (dev or admin) would do the decision making as part of an interactive process. At such a time that this idea comes in to a product plan it is likely to enhance the existing "transformation advisor" capability which was first added to the product as part of ACEv11.0.0.7 (released in Q4 2019). Status is updated to Future Consideration.