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option to always check "Discover the pending changes to load for building x" in User Build

When opening the User Build dialog, we see an option on the second page called "Discover the pending changes to load for building x".We would like a preference to set the default value of this option, so that when the preference is true, this "dis...
21 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Add Visual and Logical Text Layer in DB2 properties for IDz 16.x

Hi, For Hebrew users (or other languages that write from right to left), there is a need to read the SQL results in Visual Text Layer, otherwise the data is displayed in reverse order. We can't find the Text Layer option on Default BiDi Settings i...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

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 ...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Planned for future release

Alternative schema to be searched in place of the SYSIBM schema

The Catalog navigation function requires read access to several Db2 system catalog tables. In some cases, system administrators deliberately do not grant access to SYSIBM. Instead, a set of views, or copies of the system catalog tables are in an a...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Add the ability to explain multiple queries at once

Since datastudio is deprecated with IDz 16 and functionality is moved into RSE the functionality to run visual explain is also new. Utilizing Query tuning server it's only possible to explain a single query at once. It would be benefical to have t...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

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 ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Future 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...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 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 ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration