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Adding TWS Variables to the JCL Syntax highlighting.

The jobname is a TWS variable and the RDz generates an error message "Incorrect JOB name.". Other variables in the jcl are OK. For example date variables in dataset names do not generate an error message. The problem described in this RFE is that ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

PL1- and Cobol Editor has wrong event handling with subscription

We are writing own plugins and are using the RDZ subscription mechanism. This mechanism works perfectly with the LPEX editor, but the pl1- and cobol editor when closing a dirty editor, sends first the close event and then the postChangeEvent on th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Sql Query Builder with additional logic included

We need the Query Builder in Rdz to be able to build COBOL SQL Syntax with the following capabilities:1. To be able to surround SQL with EXEC SQL ? END-EXEC2. To be able to attach Evaluate snippets/templates (Supplied by the user/client)3. To be a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Supporting JOBCORRELATOR in RDz JES Job Filter

In RDz your are only allowed to create filters using:owner, job name prefix, job status job class and job output class It would be really nice if the job correlation feature was also introduced in RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

PL1- and Cobol Editor has wrong event handling with subscription

We are writing own plugins and are using the RDZ subscription mechanism. This mechanism works perfectly with the LPEX editor, but the pl1- and cobol editor when closing a dirty editor, sends first the close event and then the postChangeEvent on th...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Filtres sur tables DB2

Dans la perspective "Donn?es" lorsqu'on applique un filtre sur une table DB2, on ne peut pas combiner des crit?res "ou" Exemple : filtre sur tables commen?ant par les caract?res TN ou TV
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

LPEX line folding also in "new" editors such as PL/1 and JCL

In the LPEX editor it's possible to search and filter all lines which doesn't contain some specific characters. The user can then find relevant line, and expand code again. To my knowledge this functionality doesn't exists in PL/1 and Cobol editor...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Nested coloring of if/else, do and other similar statements

In ISPF editor there is a capability where it's possible to get for instance if/else statements colored based on level, it would be nice if this feature could also be enabled in RDz.I know that when the parser works, it can highlight start/end bas...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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

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