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IBM Developer for z/OS

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    Need support for migrated dataset during DEPLOY_MODULES/UPDATE/MEMBER_COPY phase

    When Wazi Deploy tries to copy to a dataset that has been migrated, it fails with an error in ZOAU dtouch which doesn't support migrated datasets: stderr_response: IKJ56893I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOAD NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17101I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOA...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 1 Future consideration

    When using IBM Z Open Editor MCP server via Roo Code, allow the capability to use a ZOWE profile other than the default

    Multi-Sysplex environments requires multiple ZOWE host profiles, currently the IBM Z Open Editor MCP server only considers the default ZOWE host profile. It would be beneficial to direct an IBM Z Open Editor MCP server to different LPARs without h...
    24 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

    PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

    Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

    Need a way to prevent IDz from copying zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration

    It has been observed that during the copying of a program from one project/Git repository to another in IDz, the associated zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration is also transferred (HLQ, Build groovy script, application,...). The customer sug...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Cobol Editor BIDI support

    Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    Add a link between the artifact and the step result in the evidence file

    The step_result field in the evidence file for the MEMBER_COPY, SEQUENTIAL_COPY, MEMBER_ARCHIVE and SEQUENTIAL_ARCHIVE steps currently don’t include a field that represent the element being deployed. It only appears as part of the copy command. We...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

    Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

    It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / Editors / VSCODE 1 Future consideration

    Adding ability of Key Mapping to Remote Connection Emulator

    Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) is replacing Host Connection Emulator (HCE) from IDz 16 and onwards. In the old HCE we had the ability of mapping any key (or combination of keys) in the keyboard to any command. In the new RCE - key mapping is res...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

    Full keyboard mapping in RCE

    This idea comes from TS014282019. In the IDz 15.0.3 the host emulator supported the full keyboard mapping. For example, there are two enter keys in full keyboard, our devs would like to map the second enter key to a different function. This functi...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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