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Improve version-to-version migration experience

Provide better documentation and ideally automation capabilities to support migration from one version to another, using the same workspace IBM Comments:- this pertains not just to RDz but to other IDEs (RAD, RDi, ...) also - this "RFE" was captur...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Using "Problems" view for PL/1 and Cobol warnings/errors

Currently it's only possible see problems in PL/1 and Cobol programs as warnings, and only highligted in inside the editor on the left and right side of the editor. It would be much better to integrate this functionality with the eclipse Problems ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Require a common utility to un-install various RDz versions expect the one which specified

Need a common utility that can uninstall all previously version of RDz client and only keep the latest version.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDZ - Charset selection at install

At install or RDz, we would like to have to possibility to select a charset that will be applied to all function that use charset (LPEX editor, host emulator, ...)We do not use the US charset 1047 in our company but 1147 instead and if our users f...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Create endevor packages automaticlly pull in ccid and comments

When building a package in endevor, automatically pull in the ccid and description to the package from the element that I have selected. All that would need to be added is a check to see if there is a ccid on the element which is already in RDz, i...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Inspecting first element in array index 1,2,3,4 etc. when debugging

In our company some developers have requested if it would possible to inspect the first element in each array "record".
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 outline view - when items hidden show parent

From RDz 8.5 a new outline was introduced as part of the continous improvements in RDz. A new feature was the ability to see multilevel program construcs, and not only procedures in pl1. For instance select and do's is now visible in the outline v...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

export feature updated to correctly use the same format of the DB2 datatype for timestamp which is '2500-01-01-12.00.00.00000

Issue with the exporting of information out of Data Studio - when the result comes back as a timestamp (see TAX_LOT_ID and CLOSE_TAX_LOT_ID below), the date and time are separated by a space. When you export to excel, it can't figure out where the...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

The findText function in the ISPF/LPEX editor does not behave like the FIND command in the ISPF editor.

The find command in the ISPF/LPEX should work with only one column specified like the ISPF editor command. Mainframe programmers familiar with the ISPF editor expect similar functionality out of the ISPF/LPEX find command.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

QUERY EXECUTION TIME

The query execution time which is useful does not display on the STATUS tab when using "sample contents" or ? ?"return all rows" in the DATA SOURCE EXPLORER. ? ? ?It does show when I enter my own sql. ? ? ?See example:? Query execution time => ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

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