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Update the System Z Data Editor to handle files that have large data record lengths

Enhance the System Z Data Editor to handle files with record lenghts greater than 5,000 bytes. The current editor starts having problems with records of this length. Per the comments in the PMR this problem comes from the limitation of SWT which i...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Add the capability to overrule/override a specific file to transfer it as binary

Add the capability to overrule/override a specific file to transfer it as binary.The capability to specify file transfer type explicitly in dialog makes sense, as well as a capability see the transfer information for a file/member seems apt.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Default View for Search

Currently, when a user clicks on Search, the default view is on the Remote z/OS Search tab. We'd like to have the option of making the Remote z/OS File Search tab as the default.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Sonar integration

Hello, Euro Information is involved in DevOps process and as a consequence needs to facilitate quality analysis directly when developers are coding their Cobol programs. Sonar is one of the leaders in this domain and we want to make it possible fo...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

IDz to ship a version of CDT matching its Eclipse neon

At level IDz 14.1.2, customer needs someadditional plugins from CDT.They tried to install CDT 9.2.1 (that's compatible for eclipse neon) with p2 update, but it fails.Customer thinks there has a compatible version of CDT to be integrated in IDz. (R...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Generate DCLGEN for table "Views"

Please add the function to produce DCLGEN for a DB2 table View.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Automating cached files cleaning

I would like to have the cached files deletion to be handled automatically within RDz client V9.5.1 to avoid any files crash behavior, probably due with cached files.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Property Group Global Variables indicating the processing environment

Please provide a Global Variable in PropertyGroups to support differentiation between "Build a Test Case" in zUnit und "Remote Syntax Check". This is necassary in order to initialize different logic in the corresponding members of "Procedures and ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Add ability to track externally files migrated as binary and formatting lost in IDZ

Related to RFE 143077.Seeing that once it's migrated over as binary, all formatting will be lost in IDz and it'll be next to impossible to fix the code afterwards." This issue is editing and round trip with binary files as created/indicated throug...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Fixed width font for Menu Manager output in dialog.

When showing the 'output in dialog' from an action in Menu Manager, the default font spacing is variable depending on the character. This causes headings to be misaligned over the columns of results. Any of these solutions (in order of preference)...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

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