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Add font and font size preference specific to IBM RDz Data Editor

IBM RDz Data Editor should have its own font settings in its own preference. Currently, the font for the Data Editor can only be mofified with other features under Windows/Preferences/General/Appearance/Colors and Font/Basic/Text Font. If it is ch...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Delivered

Add PDS member functionality to MVS Files filters

Allow the specification of a member name (fully qualified or wild carded) with a PDS name in an MVS Files filter. Include the member name with the dataset name when expanding the MVS Files filter and limit the member list to the member name (fully...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 23 Delivered

RDz support for Mac

Currently, RDz runs on a Windows machine and Linux (I believe). I would like to see RDz (and all plug-ins) like DataStudio, IA, etc. run on a Mac machine.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

missin jcl procstep information in the RDz

in ispf sdsf a column procstep is shown in the table. this information is missing in the RDz. in some cases that leads to datasets in the jes output you can not distinguish from each other. witch dataset is from witch step in the proc?
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

if the copy commend in eclipse so that low values in the middle of the data will not stop the copy.

There is a problem when coping from documents that have non display character - see attached in PMRm for examples
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

Notify and TSO SEND aus JCLs

The NOTIFY Parameter in the Job Card and a TSO Send Command have no effect when using the RDz. The messages are send to the users TSO session. These messages should be send to the RDz session of the user.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 10 Delivered

JES should be able to show queue number for a job

When looking into Remote System details on a Jes Job Filter a lot of information is show. However one thing is missing, and that's if a job is in the input queue, which number is it in the queue. Today developers have to logon to the tso in order ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

Edit Popup in Debug perspective

In the popup window doing mouse hover on a variable i need to edit, copy , paste the value
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Display in JES the step that is currently executing

Today we see all the JCL steps. We need some indication of which JCL step is currently executing.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 9 Delivered

Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered