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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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

Add local property groups to push to client

Push to client is a great capability, however, it doesn't support local property groups. As a result, developers are unable to pull in their copybooks locally without manually defining the property group. We would like to see the export capability...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Under review

Create an MVS Subproject *sub*folder (or just nested MVS subprojects)

In the z/OS Projects pane, I'd like to be able to nest MVS subproject folders within MVS subproject folders. This would allow for significantly improved organization of project files and datasets. For example, let's assume I have an MVS subproject...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

CARMA Hyperlink to DSN from PRINT ELEMENT

Currently when a request is made to PRINT ELEMENT and RUN IN FOREGROUND is selected the user is presented with the results and a Target DSN . There is no facility to either click on a hyperlink for the DSN nor even copy the DSN.
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox.

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox and would liek have a fix ASAP in next 17.x version. This is really leading to some confusion during ...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Is a defect

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

IDz to support BMS Map Subfields.

Need IDz to be able to support the ability to have subfields like in SDF. We have many maps today that use the subfields within SDF.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Strip EXEC SQL for cursor when running from cobol source

When rearchitecting DB2 interaction between IDz 15 & 16 one of things changed is that running an EXEC SQL declaring a cursor now requires the developer to mark the select statement in v16 while v15 behind the scene stripped out the cursor decl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Under review

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