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add move command for members of libraries

When moving a member from a library to another using RDz (RemoteSystemsView or z/OSProjectsView), you have to copy the file and delete if afterwards. It would be useful to have a move/cut command for files.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Display of BLF-Data

Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Universal compare for many types of data

This RFE is about an universal compare. Something like "select first item" and "select second item" and when both are selected a compare is started comparing this two items.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. If necessary, inserting shall be prevented.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines.

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. Lines should automatically be wrapped to new lines starting with an *.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

FA Eclipse: Divide Storage Areas into Working-Storage and Linkage

Under Event details --> Event 1/2/3/... there is an item called "Storage Areas" - this should be divided for COBOL into Working-Storage and Linkage. This division should be shown in the outline view as well.
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Secure RDz workspace in encrypted sandbox

There are several security concern from system Z customer view. The number 1 is the Foot Print issue. RDz store the download file without encryption. When exit workbench, the temporary file is even not deleted. If we can allocate a file spaces wit...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Adding a little bit of TWS to the JCL editor

TWS makes small changes to the JCL. These changes result in errors and warnings marked by the JCL editor within RDz. That way all of our JCLs are wrong and it is very easy to miss real errors in a JCL. Please add TWS variables to the syntax check ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration