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    Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

    Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK. However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used a...
    12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Add support for all components to use certificate/smartcard as login method

    As an extension to IDZ-I-2324 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for all components from IDz client same way as RSE does. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use existing smartcard infras...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

    Add support for jwt between IDz client and host

    When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

    Add EXPORT and SYMBOLS Keyword Support for the LPEX JCL Editor

    A user noticed she gets errors when she uses the EXPORT and SYMBOLS keywords when using the LPEX JCL editor. The EXPORT keyword is associated with the message Incorrect JCL operation field. The SYMBOLS keyword is associated with the message Unknow...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

    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.
    12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Allow NULL values on Save and Load of XML files used in Stored Procedure call.

    When running/calling a DB2 Stored Procedure in the IDz user interface and using the save and load feature for input, values set to NULL will be saved to an XML file as an empty string. When loading the XML file, values will not be set to null but ...
    9 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Need support for editing DBCS in hexadecimal in the COBOL editor

    There is a limitation that the COBOL editor cannot edit DBCS members in hexadecimal https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=editor-limitations#c_dbsupport_sosi The following editor features are not available when you edit EBCDIC...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

    Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

    Provide an option to prevent VS CODE from checking compile logs when no compile is performed in user build.

    When running a User Build in VS Code using the DBB user lifecycle, it will always check for compile logs in Step 13. When using the Transfer.yaml language definition to transfer files to USS, no compile is performed, only a file transfer is initia...
    1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

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