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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...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under 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

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

Open big sysout whith IDZ

We have sysout with 500000 lines or more, and we can't open it with IDZ. For big sysout it is possible to add a function for open it at line n, or for search an particular string and open it a this line ? An editor similar to "Editeur de donnée Sy...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 9 Not under consideration

: Preprocessed lines in PL/I Editor should be colored like normal lines

After the local preprocessor is used to preprocess a PL/I file in the PL/I Editor, all lines that are changed by the preprocessor are colored dark blue. This is even true for statements that extend over more than one line, where the first line is ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Copybook with REPLACING ==(PREF)== BY ==xxxx==

We have somme copybook with replacing (see added file Capture2.jpg). This copybook are included in COBOL program with :COPY name REPLACING ==(PREF)== BY ==xxxx==. When we open this copybook in IDz we have a lot of error due to ==( )==. With REPLAC...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

LPEX JCL editor needs to have the same syntax support as JCL editor

LPEX JCL editor currently does not support JCL statements such as EXPORT and related keywords.IDz LPEX JCL editor does not recognize EXPORT statement and related keywords such as SYMBOLS etc.When JCL is coded with EXPORT statement, error - Incorre...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Implement binary copy/paste in PL/I and COBOL editors

Allowing in edition the copy-cut/paste of binary characters in COBOL and PL/I editors
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage, but only uses it's default codepage setting (IBM-1047)You have to manually set the correct codepage within ID/z to view the USS-file in its proper format
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh Outline View on changes

Currently the "outline view" is updated only after saving a file. We would like to get it updated on each change to section names or inserting/deleting sections prior saving the file.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration