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Editing a copybook : no warning when usgin parenthesis

Hello, At first it was the Case number : TS023173721 (you can see screenshots).  When we used parenthesis in a copybook, because the cobol program use the instruction "COPY copybook_name REPLACING ==(PREF)== BY ==EA00==", there is a warning i...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Default editor assignment for *.* files when LPEX editor is obsolete

Once the LPEX editor is removed from IDz, there should be a default editor assigned for *.* files (example Text Editor IBM).
10 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Make the IDz JCL Outline terminate an in-stream PROC scope at a valid PEND statement

Request Enhance the JCL Editor Outline in IBM Developer for z/OS so that a valid PEND statement terminates the current in-stream procedure scope in the Outline structure. Statements following PEND should be displayed at the enclosing job level unl...
14 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Enhance "Identify Unused Variables" to recognize host variables referenced inside EXEC SQL blocks that are defined in the WORKING-STORAGE

'The Refactor → Identify Unused Variables' feature falsely reports COBOL variables as unused when they are only referenced as DB2 SQL host variables inside an EXEC SQL DECLARE CURSOR block in the WORKING-STORAGE. This happens because the scan is l...
18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

Add some coloring background to COBOL editor

Some users asked to add some coloring into the background when opening a COBOL program when using the COBOL editor, like the isCOBOL eclipse editor (see attached screenshot). For example, for the column 1 to 6, it will be gray and green starting c...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Submitted

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

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors Under review

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