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    Implement line length limitations for the Compare Editor.

    Currently the Compare Editor will allow you to compare two files with unlimited line length and save it. This can be a problem when working on line limited Cobol source programs. If you take an 80 character line limited Cobol program and compare i...
    1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

    Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
    22 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Planned for future release

    Introduce a scope in zapp.yaml property group definitions

    With today's schema of the property group configuration, the search paths are applied for the entire language and cannot be scoped to specific files or folders. Applications may require scopes of where the property groups configuration can be appl...
    22 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

    IMS Catalog utility FABXCATM has no exclude option during DECODE IMS DBD or PSB Source

    FABXCATM is only allow wild card option to DECODE DBD and PSB from IMS catalog and cannot exclude specific member level option. Please add this new function.
    13 days ago in IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Under review

    Cobol Editor BIDI support

    Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future 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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Add auto-completion for structures when using header files (C/C++)

    When developping in C langage, the auto-completion is useful because it allows you to find the correct variable/function. However, when using a header file (example : #include "testpgmc.h") the auto-completion is not working but it is working when...
    9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Under review

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