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Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add a report of lines impacted by the REPLACE compiler directive

Hi, The REPLACE compiler directive allows replacements of COBOL source text, a priori after processing the COPY directives: from the point where it is declared until the end of the source code, or until the REPLACE OFF directive. However, it...
about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to define a property group by default

Hi, It would be useful to have the option to define a property group by default for all imported z/OS projects. Today our developers must select each project and associate it with the property group that we want. An action that can be easily autom...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Conditional compilation variables containing the names of the current Division, Section, and Paragraph

Hi, We would like to have conditional compilation variables containing the current Division, Section, and Paragraph names at compile time: IGY-DIVISION-NAME, (force name to uppercase, default is space if before ID DIVISION) IGY-SECTION-NAME, (...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Quick/Easy access to DB2 tables and queries

The new DB2 features within IDz are great, but a little cumbersome to use. In order to access tables and queries within the Remote Systems pane, I have to navigate through 5 layers of dropdown menus. I think a new, separate DB2 "view" would be rea...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration