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Ability to search for a character in a specific column

Some of our developers ask for the possibility of having an easy method to search for a character in a specific column with Ctrl F and possibly make a Replace all only in a single column. The second one is useful in some language such as COBOL whe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Submitted

New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Planned for future release

Enable key mapping in RCE to switch from editor/view/perspective

By default, key mapping CTRL+F6 can be used to switch from one editor tab to another but when RCE is opened and has the focus then CTRL+F6 doesn't work anymore. A user cannot use key mapping to switch between the RCE and Editor tabs. In v15, it wa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Planned for future release

Ability to map alphanumeric keys (like CTRL+A) on the key mapping settings of the Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

On the Host Connection Emulator in IDz v15, it was possible to map alphanumeric keys like CTRL-P for push. The same functionality is requested for the Host Connection Emulator in v17.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Not under consideration

Display again the database filter menu like in v15

In IDz v15, there were two context menus on database connection items like schema or stored procedure: Filter and Properties In v17, there is only Properties where filters can be set as well. A customer would like to see the Filter menu again.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Not under consideration
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Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Future consideration

IDz/CARMA - new package status "Execute Failed"

Would like to see a new Package status of "Execute Failed" in CARMA. When I select IN-APPROVAL and APPROVED, I see Endevor packages that are in those statuses but also see packages that are in exec failed status. Please include a Package status of...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Future consideration

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Not under consideration

Log on at remote systems when sources with copy libraries on property group

Even if you have sources with an associated property group configured with Copy Libraries pointing to a SYSLIB on a remote system, when you open a source with copys not present in the local SYSLIB, the copybooks are marked as not found. If in the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Future consideration

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