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Specify a custom Db2 for z/OS connection name

Currently, when a connection to a Db2 subsystem is created it only specifies the host name and LOCATION. From my experience, developers don't know the LOCATION but only the common name of the subsystem. It would be nice if developers could specify...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Notifications or News from any user or admin

Provide a way for an "administrator" to issue messages to all users currently logged on to RSE server or post News that will be pushed to users as they connect to RSE
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Delivered

ASM property group needed for local z/OS Projects

We are looking into introducing a “modern” toolchain including IDz – git – IBM DBB... and are now working with a POC.If the POC is successful it could in the future replace our existing “toolchain” that completely resides on z/OS.When we work with...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

PL/I editor - hover function

If a developer uses the PL/I editor to change a program, it is possible to hover over an %INCLUDE statement to see the content of that include member. Hitting F2 lets this window keep the focus and it is possible to look around in that include mem...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

IDz 14.2 Deactivate Personalization questionnaire

Hello, We're using IDz 14.1.7 and want to migrate to 14.2.n.For us it's mandatory to deactivate Personalization questionnaire that appears when a workspace is opened for the first time.This request is because we want to provide to our users a stan...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Persist Search edit and re-run w/o making it a favorite.

When performing a Remote z/OS File Search one has to enter selection criteria into the 'Search string' (and possibly make other setting changes) before hitting <Enter> to start the search. The Remote z/OS Search view is opened upon the compl...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Possibility to transfer the source-code of a PL/I-program automatically to upper-case during save

We need a possibility, that the whole source-code of a PL/I-program opened in the LPEX-editor is automatically switched to upper-case when it is saved. This option can be defined up to now only for Cobol and JCL, but for PL/I this is also needed
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Menu manager action to submit USS shell script

IDz currently doesn't have a menu manager action that allows users to support running USS shell scripts. Currently, we invoke OSHELL from TSO action which in turn runs our shell script to achieve this but the output is not available to view from I...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

DCLGEN and outputlibrary

When doing a DCLGEN in Data Studio using IDz you will reach a point where the output dataset needs to be specified. On that panel the field is locked and you have to use the "Browse" button to select a library. It is way too slow than just typing ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

MVS Subprojects: Other description for Delete and Remove

In the MVS subproject context menu there are 2 items, that sound similar and may lead to unintended deletion of MVS Data Sets. 1. Remove... -> means "remove from project"2. Delete... -> means "delete MVS remote data set" (or "delete member f...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered