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Editors

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Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Bracket matching in COBOL

Bracket matching is a feature in Eclipse that allows you to visually match opening brackets to closing brackets to get an even better overview about what parts of the code to belong to each other. That feature seems to be missing in the COBOL Edit...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Remote Edit History View does not support Browse

The Remote Edit History View has an "Open" command in the context menu. This means that the selected file is always locked. It would make sense to add a "Browse" to the context menu in the same way as the Remote Systems View, so that the file to b...
22 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

In addition to syntax checking in the Editor, please add semantic checking as well.

Semantic checking of the code in IDz Editor would make mainframe developers even more productive since they still are able to create code in IDz that passes all syntax checks without being valid code. You only see it in the JES Spoolfiles, once yo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to collapse/expand EVALUATE/IF/PERFORM statements for COBOL source

For the COBOL editor, today it is possible to expand or collapse a division, section or paragraph using the plus/minus icon in the left margin next to the division or section name. We would like to have the same functionality for EVALUATE, PERFORM...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Hot key to launch LPEX Editor

I usually use the COBOL Editor, but some operations are easier to do in LPEX, so it would be handy to easily launch the LPEX editor with a hotkey when I need. Now I need to right click the file, and find the LPEX editor, which is more clumpsy
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration