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Add a message box indicating that no remote file synchronization is possible

When requesting a remote synchronization with no remote file, there is no indication that it can not be performed. This behavior is inherited from the team synchronization functionality from Eclipse. Eclipse indicates there isn't a remote file by ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Is a defect

Content Assist not available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z.

Content Assist (CTRL-Space) is not currently available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z. We would like this functionality because we think it would be very beneficial to have the Content Assist feature available on these tabs...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

The LPEX Editor in RDz has the search and replace facility with the CTRL-F key which has to be displayed correctly.

When the LPEX Editor is open with a source and the view is not maximized there is a problem with the display of the CTRL-F function. A piece of the LPEX view is reserved to show the options of the Search facility. However, when the LPEX view is to...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

EGL maps in Parts Reference should appear in different lines

In Rational Business Developer 7.5, EGL Parts Reference, Use Declarations, when there's an EGL mapset with several maps, they should appear as the tables, in the first line the mapset name, then we explode and see each map in different lines with ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Remote synchronize - disable the synchronization

The Remote Synchronization of Local Projects with remote z/OS PDS members are enabled with a drop down menu, but the users are missing the function to disable the synchronization.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz OMVS Root

I would like to set a default OMVS Root directory for RDz 7.5 Users when I start the RSE job. Product currently defaults to /.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Not under consideration

XML to COBOL converter numeric conversion inefficient

The algorithm / code generated by Rational Developer for z Series to convert incoming XML data to COBOL numeric data types is inefficient. This is my understanding of the generated inbound (XML to COBOL) XML converter code: 1) Whenever the convert...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

EGL handler using an EGL library holds on to global EGL library and the global variables within that library

request to improve performance by handling differently libraries in JSF handlers.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

PDS 'refresh' not working for anything except ISPF updates

Please see IBM issue 90060-227. This pertains to RDz client not recognizing updates to PDS members unless the update is done by TSO/ISPF. TSO/ISPF is the only thing that currently updates the "user data" area in the PDS directory, and that's appar...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Display Cobol tables and PL/I arrays, single dimension & multi-dimension like native language in the RDz Monitor window

Take a 3 dimensional Cobol table that looks like this:01 TABLE1. 02 TABLE1B OCCURS 2 TIMES. 03 SUB-TABLE OCCURS 3 TIMES. 05 SUB-TAB-ID PIC XXX. 05 REC-FORMAT OCCURS 75 TIMES. 07 SEG-IND PIC X. 07 SEG-ID PIC XXX. 07 ADDR-OF-SEG POINTER.When I monit...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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