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IBM Developer for z/OS

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...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability Planned for future release

Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 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.
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build Planned for future release

Enable key mapping in RCE to switch from editor/view/perspective

By default, key mapping CTRL+F6 can be used to switch from one editor tab to another but when RCE is opened and has the focus then CTRL+F6 doesn't work anymore. A user cannot use key mapping to switch between the RCE and Editor tabs. In v15, it wa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build Planned for future release

Use artifact based deployments instead of hardcoded parameters in the environment file

* non artifact related modules * (ds_create, ds_delete, job_submit, shell_command, system_command, tso_command, template) These modules are using the environment file for reading configurations. The developer must edit this file for each dep...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Planned for future release

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