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Intranet Server so where non-IBM employees can access our Documentation offline.

Currently, IBM documentation can only be accessed and downloaded internally. There is no intranet server for customers to download/configure and customers cannot access the documentation externally. The current process is to download the IBM deskt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Quick Reference Cards to ease searching for developers and to promote adoption of RDz

Quick Reference Cards are the way for developers to have a large part of the functionality at hand. It gives them the means to find RDz actions fast. An example of a Quick Reference Card can be found for the CICS Explorer. It is attached to this RFE.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

Remote Resource API documentation

For the Remote Resource API there is currently a poor javadoc documentation and some incomplete samples available. We wish to have an improved separate documentation, about all interfaces and functionality which is available in the API and how it ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Provide icon hoverover feature to reduce learning curve times.

It would be great if there was the ability to see more information about what each and every icon represents when a mouse hoverover is performed. Being used to a greenscreen world all of my career, getting in and using RDz in Eclipse has been chal...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Provide icon hoverover feature to reduce learning curve times.

It would be great if there was the ability to see more information about what each and every icon represents when a mouse hoverover is performed. Being used to a greenscreen world all of my career, getting in and using RDz in Eclipse has been chal...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Option to download entire product bookshelves in addition to individual manuals

I would like to be able to download, via a single download, the entire grouping of PDF manuals related to a given product or "z/OS VxRyy and Software Products Collection", including an HTML index with the names of the manuals similar to the index ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

RSE: unclear error message

Don't know if this request needs a change in RDz or RACF. Anyway, let's try as it is a customer's request. Per Host Configuration guide, SYS1.CMDLIB dataset must be PROGRAM authorized. The command is:The command is:PROGRAM * ADDMEM('SYS1.CMDLIB'//...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 3 Not under consideration

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

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