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LPEX Editor ISPF commands don't all work in Uppercase

ISPF Commands should work in both upper and lower case for consistency in the user experience. Certain commands such as 'UNDO' only work in lower case. .
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Notification on ended job

When submitting a jcl in rdz, I would like a notification when the job has finished. Some users may NOT want a nofitication so this behaviour shuold be controlled by a preference or by having as "submit with notification" menu option.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RSE 'Compare with each other' - ignore data in pos. 73-80 (as an option)

In RSE I select two programs and perform 'compare with each other'. The window shows me two programs side by side and differences between. We are using Endevor as a source repository. Endevor inserts data (basically program number and some statist...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Utilisation (Remplissage) d'un PDS

Je ne retrouve pas sur RDz les informations ? Current allocation ?, ? Current Utilization ? et ? Dates ? des PDS, visibles sur le 3.2 de TSO, et utiles ? nos d?veloppeurs.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Would like to view Fault analyzer history

Would like to be able to view the information from the H (Duplicate history) option in Fault Analyzer.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

CARMA - RDZ 8031 - FIND OR LOCATE MEMBER

Please add a "FIND MEMBER" or "LOCATE MEMBER" option on CARMA folders. It makes it much easier to go directly to a member. We should not have to create and then delete a filter view to get this result.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

ConnectionCloseListener for HostConnections

In one of our Plugins we want to write a host dataset just the moment before the connection to the host is shut down. There is a ConnectionClose Listener in the Eclipse RSE but this listener does not satisfy the requirements, because it works corr...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

Need mechanism to add Assembler Macros from a PDS into the User Macro Definitions file

In the release of RDz version 8.0.3 there is a new feature in the Assembler editor that determines if a Macro found in the source is valid. This process comes with a file that defines the IBM supplied Macros, but if a client has Macros that have b...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Alternative way for downloading offline repositories

I have trouble using the Installation Manager through our company firewall, so I tried creating an offline repository for installing IDz/Debug client. But the only way to do this is using the Packaging Utility that uses the same download mechanism...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

ClearCase (via CTE) Total Integration with z/OS Project.

The CTE for Eclipse (ClearTeam Explorer) doesn't integrate with z/OS Project of RDz. Normally, the COBOL program stay into the dataset in mainframe. The z/OS Project just has a logical view of this program. In fact, the z/OS Project has a xml file...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration