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    Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

    1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

    Add auto-completion for structures when using header files (C/C++)

    When developping in C langage, the auto-completion is useful because it allows you to find the correct variable/function. However, when using a header file (example : #include "testpgmc.h") the auto-completion is not working but it is working when...
    6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Under review

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    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...
    10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    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

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

    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

    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

    Missing DB2 load/import option in IDz 17.0.2

    Until IDz v15, with the Data Source Explorer, the Db2 load/import option was available, but now that Data Studio has been deprecated (since IDz v16), the functionality is missing?
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Under review

    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

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