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DB2z Connections: Display SQL query with complete table or field information

When an IDz DB2z Connections SQL query is executed and the table being queried has a very large field, it is displayed with an ellipsis at the end.If the ellipsis is selected, a window is displayed showing the entire record. Sometimes, the record ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

iDz 'Real-Time Syntax Checking' has only COBOL v.5.1 option available

In iDz under the Preferences -> COBOL -> Features -> Real-Time Syntax Checking, under the 'Validate against compiler versions' it seems that Enterprise COBOL V5.1 is default and nothing else is selectable.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Re-drive prompts for MFA (and UID/PW) to handle multiple connections from different sysplexes and RACF setups

When IDz has multiple RSE connections, multiple DB2 for z/OS connections, multiple sysplexes, and multiple RACF setups, it’s hard to determine which prompts and logins go with which connection in the current connection configuration in IDz. For DB...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Delivered

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file.Refer TS016428390
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Export the data in ‘Data Elements' window to spreadsheet.

If we can export this into a spreadsheet, we can perform the following: 1. Use the Data element analysis and filter on different columns. E.g. filter on unused (reference count zero) variables. 2. Sum up the pic clause in spread sheet – to count t...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

BANK HAPOALIM LTD

The Customer developed user-written rules to be tested with Code Review and wish to run them all in a Batch process on the zSystem:They used the provided JCL proc AKGCR to run the code review.The job was successful but the elapsed time was long, a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Program Control Flow

Program control flow has FROM HERE (to end of the program) and TO HERE (from the start of the program), however if there is an option to use “FROM HERE” “TO HERE” that would be a nice add on especially in large programs
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

MOVE option is not available in RDz

MOVE option is not available
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Call External Stored Procedures

Hi, Our company uses a lot of external stored procedures (mainly written in Cobol, Java). It would be great if the IDz gets a possibility to call them. After entering the input parameters, the result (e.g. output parameters or result sets) is disp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered