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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)...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 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.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Support for INSTREAM DDs in the User Build function (RTC Integration Feature)

The User Build feature provided by the RTC Integration feature currently lacks support for INSTREAM DDs. As RTC itself supports INSTREAM DDs in their translators, it would be great to have that feature in the User Build too.
over 9 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
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Allow margins to be ignored when comparing remote files

When comparing two remote files margins should be ignored.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Copy local COBOL-Sources to z/OS: encoding-warning

We want to copy local COBOL-Sources (from Project-Explorer) to MVS-Files. The files don't contain any HEX-code or any unusual characters. The source isw copied correctly, but since IDz 14.2.2 there is an Encoding Warning: "The file contains charac...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Cobol editor - filter views

Add filter views that exist in the Lpex editor.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

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...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

CARMA - message upon completion indicating that job has been completed successfully (or not)

When I submit job in CARMA, I am getting message 'Job has been submitted successfully'. There is no indication of job name/number. This is has been requested by my co-worker previously. This is request to display message that job has been complete...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 9 Delivered

HCE to show the TLS connection level

IDz 14.1 Host Connection Emulator (HCE) should show the TLS security level (1.0 or 1.2) used to established the connection
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

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