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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 / Usability 5 Planned for future release

Adding the possibility to deactivate "also delete sequential files and members" in project deletion

To avoid undesirable mass deletions on multiple programs/PDS, add the option to disable the option "also delete sequential files and members" to the deletion of a project/subproject in the z/OS projects view.
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Planned for future release

Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

Rceapp tn3270 profile host modification possibilities

RSE API has introduced tn3270 client possibilities. Sadly it connects only to the same host where rseapi is running and there's no override possibilities for the host address, the only possibility is to override port today in the rseapi server con...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Planned for future release

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

Default Application Manifest extension for DBB builds in Wazi Deploy Packager

Wazi Deploy packager (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=commands-wazi-deploy-packager-command) comes with an extension option to amend information into the application manifest file. I would like to see a default extension...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Consistency about of Jinja2 template between Ansible and Python translator

On the python translator approach, it requires to reference the variable from a conditional deployment via the "environment" dict. In Ansible, this is different - variables can be accessed directly by referencing it's name. The documentation outli...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Support patterns for Ansible variables for core building block member_copy/*

The Python Variables for member_copy support patterns as outlined in the documentation allowing a higher flexibility than the Ansible variables . Ansible-based configuration only provides the static "type" variable. Align the variable configuratio...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

How to apply a license with a P2 install

Such a great idea to use the P2 install. Thank you for that. But apart from the settings (idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IDZ-I-2222) it would be good to distribute the license automatically with install as well. (Or are they included in a worksp...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Assembler dependancy discovery during IDz User Build Wizard

Currently the IDz User Build Wizard only supports Enterprise Cobol and Enterprise PL/I include files. We would like to expand this functionality to support Assembler macro discovery. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0?topic=zappbui...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

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