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    Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

    Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK. However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used a...
    12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Add EXPORT and SYMBOLS Keyword Support for the LPEX JCL Editor

    A user noticed she gets errors when she uses the EXPORT and SYMBOLS keywords when using the LPEX JCL editor. The EXPORT keyword is associated with the message Incorrect JCL operation field. The SYMBOLS keyword is associated with the message Unknow...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

    Need support for editing DBCS in hexadecimal in the COBOL editor

    There is a limitation that the COBOL editor cannot edit DBCS members in hexadecimal https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=editor-limitations#c_dbsupport_sosi The following editor features are not available when you edit EBCDIC...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

    Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

    Need support for editing DBCS members where one or both SO/SI are missing

    When source code members miss one or both SO/SI characters (x'0E or x'0F) then IDz on VS code and Eclipse fail to edit them or display them as read only. Customers need to be able to edit and save them to MVS.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Enable Hex mode for components with UTF-8 encoding.

    Enable Hex mode for components with UTF-8 encoding. Hex mode (Alt + Shift + H) works for programs with Windows-1252 encoding, but the standard encoding used in git repositories is UTF-8. In this encoding, Hex mode displays the message “Hex editing...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    SQL code completion - better suggestions

    The SQL code completion in idz 17.0.2 using ctrl+space always displays all db2 objects such as schemas, tables and columns.I can define a schema filter via the preference.With many tables it is still difficult to recognize which objects I want to ...
    6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Add new feature to highlight cobol code beyond 80 column or show warning in editor and also editor in built decide maximum file length maximum based on pds member property

    Add new feature to highlight cobol code beyond 80 column or show warning in editor and also editor in built decide maximum file length maximum based on pds member property. Currently if cobol code having 80 length opened editor it allows to type c...
    10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

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