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Allow Show dependencies without JCL submit

This issue has been discussed on PMR# 08724,379,000. Problem is that if RDz procedure ELAXFCOC is not used for compilation and therefore not configured then Show dependencies will also not work because it needs to submit a Job using ELAXFCOC. It w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Support for input field in Menu Manager dialog for password type fieles

Customer needs to enter a password in the Menu manager dialog to be passed to REXX program, and need this field hidden ( password Type input field) on the screen.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Browsing the file is taking lot of time

Viewing and Browsing the sequencial file in RDz is taking lot of time.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Tape information (similar to VI on ISPF) on RDz

VI - option which retries the information of the file went to tape is NOT available in RDz
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Provide support to switch UID in zExplorers/iDZ

Hello, under zOS we more and more have to deal with USS services and zFS-files. As a zOS systems-programmer not everybody knows in deep the possbilities and features of USS. Often we need to switch to UID 0 to do specific file-changes and this is ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration

JMR function is not available in RDz

JMR function which will display all the previous runs(days,months, years) of production jobs is not available in RDz
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration