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z/OS Application Development

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PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

IDz does not recognize variables used in "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause that were defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION instead of the LINKAGE SECTION

Variables used in the "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause have to be defined in the LINKAGE SECTION. If not, even if they are defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION, it ends with a compilation error on the mainframe "IGYPA3067-S Operand "REC-NSCERCH...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Depending on whether the compile option is ADV (default) or NOADV, it seems that future measures are needed.

Depending on whether the compile option is ADV (default) or NOADV, it seems that future measures are needed. 1) For ADV option The product development team also confirmed that the combination of the WRITE ADVANCING clause and the ADV compiler opti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

IDz DBB user build discovers dependencies only for COBOL and PLI

IDz tool will not auto select the Maclib (copybook library) for ALC modules when trying to run the DBB user build wizard setup. We have to manually select it each time to start the DBB configuration. (Works for cobol but no for ALC)
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

customizable values in the generated JCL

The size of the files for generation of JCL (e.g. for Compile Link Debug) is hard coded. That should be customizable.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Future consideration

Automatic remote project file delete problem

I want to prevent automatic removal of files in a remote z/OS project. See also use case description. Why is it deleted from the project view without further question? Please turn off this behavior or add a confirmation prompt before deleting. Tha...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Menu manager migration

IDz should support a smooth migration of menu manager to higher IDz version.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Copy and compare test entries in Test Case Editor of zUnit

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide the function to copy and compare whole values of one test entry with a single click.When performing PoC with V14.1.4, we copied by selecting the cell range.However, when the number of data items is ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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