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Facilitating audit.log browsing

As we handle numerous users, we need the audit .log to be more accessible especially when we need to deal with incidents and trace one or several users activity. Browsing it from PCOM USS is difficult and uncomfortable. Doing it through UNIX files...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Drag'n'drop of a .pax file to RSE not transfer the file as binary but as text

RDz 9.5.1ifix002 does on drag'n'drop of a .pax file to RSE not transfer the file as binary but as text.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Creating symbolic maps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in RDz.

We do have a lot of SDF II created BMS maps with LANG=PLI.Currently we do not have the possibility to create proper symbolicmaps from BMS maps with LANG=PLI in Rational Developer for System Z.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Create an API to add a quickfix to the COBOL editor

There are custom makros in the COBOL code. The preprocessor scanning the code finds a makro that is not used correctly. An easy fix is available. The user would expect a marking and a quickfix to correct the error. But at the moment (version 9.1) ...
over 7 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

Automatic login

When i run Eclipse, i wan't to launch the screen for loging to the host
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Need of EDIT MACRO like functionality i RDz's COBOL/JCL Editor

We need at EDIT Macro like functionality I RDz's COBOL/JCL Editor, so we directly in the Editor can process the full program source and do necessary changes to the code.An authorized iAPI for the Abstract Syntax Tree is needed and when this API ch...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Adding a new Formatter default preference

We need you to add a new preference for Cobol formatter concerning indentation inside procedure division. We need to handle MOVE commands to several variables with one variable per line
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Cobol parser handles masked dots differently than compiler

Local Cobol Parser indicates that '.' is missing if a command leads on 2 lines but second line that contains '.' has been masked (by a 'D' or '*')This behaviour isn't the same has cobol compiler one which sees no error at all . We need to erase th...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Scan compatibility for dynamic calls

We would like to use the option of compatibility to check the length of the communication zone betwwen a program and a subprogram is the same. It works fine for static calls ( e.g : CALL 'TESTCOUS' USING...) but not for the dynamic calls (e.g : MO...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 6 Delivered

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