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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...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
5 days 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 ...
3 months 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...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Under review

Make the margins for general editors work as suggested

When I use the COBOL editor, I can set a margin for maximum line length, that is checked when I try to save my changes. I get a warning when I override this setting. But when I use a general editor, I can set the maximum line length and check or u...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

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...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Adding UTF-8 support to the CARMA repositories view

In the CARMA repositores view you can view and edit source files stored in Endevor. However some sourcetypes are in UTF-8 (in our case wsdl's and xsd's) but on the moment sources in UTF-8 cannot be viewed or editted because it is not supported by ...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

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...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Submitted

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