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Code Review for C

We noticed that code review for C and C++ code is available in Rational developer for AIX and Linux, is it possible to include it on IdZ?
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Allow for different color schemes based on connection

Would like to be able to customized a unique color scheme based on a connection. Example: If I was to access a members on LPAR1 it would have a say a light blue hue background. If I was to access LPAR2 it would have a green hue background.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

ContentAssist enhancements

Some enhancements for the pli-contentAssist:-in many cases the Content assist doesn't Show proposals, at least built-ins and preprocessor Statements should be shown all the time-group the Content of the contentAssist in several pages, if working, ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

show tooltips for built-ins when coding in RDz

Hi!It would be useful to have the description for e.g. built-ins shown in the Content-assist for pli and Cobol, like Java.For templates the description is already shown.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Different colors for userdefined variables/sections in IDz

To set syntax coloring in idz you go into preferences => cobol => editor => syntax coloring. I want to be able set different colors for my variables or my section names in a cobolprogram. Supose that in working storage I have a variable c...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

COBOL code quality rules should use the preprocessor

The COBOL code quality rules should check within the code generated by the preprocessor. At the moment (Version 9.1) the preprocessor statements are ignored. They are not checked at all. Please check the COBOL code generated by the preprocessor fo...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Extend RDz pushToClient-feature, add MVS-/JES-Filters, Edit MyJobsFilter

Currenty (RDz 9.5.1) contains a pre-defined JES-Filter (MyJobs) for Jobs where the user is the Job owner. In our Company not all Jobs initiated by the user are running with the user as Job owner. In such cases it would be a great help to maintain ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

NullPointerException when using Refactor

When using a preprocessor and selecting "extract paragraph" from the refactor menu nothing happens. The menu just closes. And in the .log file a NullPointerException is listed. According to the case this is working as designed. This rfe is about t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Addition to Personalize my Workspace in IDz

On a new page of the Personalize my Workspace wizard we would like the option to add User Specified Pages. There are some settings which we want to change when switching to a new workspace, not just for the SCLM plugin. We don't need an interface ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

zUnit: PLI-Support for the return-code (PLIRETC)

The test case editor of zUnit does not recognizes the return code for a PLI program (PLIRETC) and therefore no expected value can be specified.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

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