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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

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

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

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

Define a new HATS variable which will contain the highlighted text

Opening a file in an Editor, we would want to get the value of the highlighted text. For example, in the JCL editor, highlight one data set name, then with a right click this would pull in that data set name to an action.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Add scoll bars to IDz Program Control editor windows

With Program Control Flow editor, there are no scroll bars on the right or bottom of the view. These would allow one to at least be able to scroll when the sizing and focus don't work.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

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