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Provide Menu Manager capability on local projects

The Menu Manager feature allows users to customize and add options on context sensitive menus, but it is not available for local projects. It would be very useful to be able to have Menu Manager capability for local projects
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Host Connection Emulator - Different Screen Size

Hello, I would like to have the Host Connection Emulator of RDz be enhanced to accept also Screen Sizes like e.g. 54x132 or 60x160 as they are common used for example in Personal Communications. The best way would be to let the user define a custo...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

Need to obtain Endevor logs after Carma actions

When we execute Endevor actions (such as ADD/Update/Generate) with Carma interface, it is necessary to browse the Endevor log files to display the results of the actions (error or information messages, JCL substitution in processors, listing of co...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Rdz non round tripable characters

In a rdz plugin, when copying a file from z/os to a local folder, we need information on non roundtripable character available via the java API.Especially ebcdic 25 values translated to ascii 0A.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Submit jcl by drag and drop in the remote system view

You can submit a jcl by choosing submit in the contextmenu in the remote systems view. I think it would be nice to submit a jcl by just dragging it in the JES tree in the remote sytems view. Submitting a jcl by following these steps:- left mouse c...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Modify RDz to allow breakpoints to be set outside of a debug session.

Recently, while attempting to resolve a tech support issue (PMR 62618,756) it was discovered that breakpoints cannot be set in code unless the code is already stopped at an execution point (i.e. - The compiled source code is already executing unde...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Number build outputfiles with sclm

We need a numbered outputfile for the build operation that will be started in rdz. you just can enter an name of the outputfiles. if these outputfiles allready exists, it will be overwritten. if you do the same example in the z/OS area you will ge...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Allow a common place for import/export of RD/z settings

I would like to see a common import/export facility for the likes of connections, property groups, file system mappings etc in a similar vein to browsers. Currently, RD/z has import/export in a variety of places. This would also allow for the impo...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Allow view of Printer control characters in the output listing of RDz JES Client

We need to view the Print control character when viewing output listings with the RDZ JES client, the same way we are able to see it with the TSO SDSF/ISPF.This request is related to PMR 79362, 228,631.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 6 Not under consideration

Filter for choosing fixed pitched fonts in ISPF editor

In the preferences for the LPEX-Editor it should be possible to filter the choosable fonts to fixed piched fonts. When coding in COBOL or other column based languages it is very confusing when the user chooses a font with a variable width of every...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

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