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Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Change the way the Preprocessor works for PLI

The PL/I processors are working as designed in the product. But sometimes it takes more than 15(!) minutes in order to complete the work - this is for the daily work completely unacceptable. A feature would be needed to change the mechanism IDZ id...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Add customizable syntax highlighting for additional types in IDz

We like to have an option to add own customized syntax highlighting schemes for specific languages without any. More current versions of Eclipse (starting with Photon 4.8) include e.g. the Generic Text Editor which has such option on-board so we d...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Delivered

Missing context menu for EXEC SQL CALL

When calling a stored procedure with "exec sql call" no context menu (View, Browse, Edit) to jump to the source (here a stored procedure source) is offered.See: missing context menu call_sp_1.jpg. If I call a "normal" Cobol program in the source, ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 7 Delivered

Eclipse Style COBOL Editor in IDz not Complaining About Empty ELSE statement

The z/OS COBOL compiler complains if an ELSE block contains no code. This is ok. The Eclipse Style COBOL editor does not complain if an ELSE block contains no code. This is not good because in such a case the programmers only notice their mistake ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Autoformat rules for the IDz COBOL editor handling of spaces brackets needs to be configurable.

The basic autoformat rules should cover the requirements for most of the IDz COBOL users. To prevent not be dictated by IDz. The rule templates should be configurable by each individual user as well as being enforced by an IDz admin. See for examp...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Generate 'exit.' at the end when extracting code to section

We'd like to configure the behavior of ending a section, that had been created by "extract to section". E.g. generate a blank line and "exit." (or "continue.") in the end
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Honor input case for extract to paragraph/section

Currently the "extract to paragraph or section" function doesn't allow mixed case / lowercase input for the name. Please allow all cases as input and honor them on creating the new section or paragraph.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

PL/I-Editor Code Folding

We would like to have the option of Code Folding within the PL/I-Editor. When you have a huge source with many looping and conditional statements code folding would help in order to find the correct blocks within the source or to hide some complex...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

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