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Recognize boolean data element in COBOL editor

Recognize boolean data element in COBOL editorPlease see attached file for details
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Enhance preprocessor support of pli-syntax-parser in RDz

Not all preprocessor-statements are recognized by the syntaxparser of the PLI-Editor in RDz, although theses Statements can be compiled and are valid.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 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

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.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Customize error/warnings for pli sources

When developing Java you can customize error/warings under Window-Preferences-Java-Compiler-Errors/Warnings. For example you can ignore some warnings. This Feature would also be useful for PLI.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 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

PL1- and Cobol Editor has wrong event handling with subscription

We are writing own plugins and are using the RDZ subscription mechanism. This mechanism works perfectly with the LPEX editor, but the pl1- and cobol editor when closing a dirty editor, sends first the close event and then the postChangeEvent on th...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 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

Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Combine COBOL outline view and preprocessor integration

The COBOL outline view is based on the content of the editor and not on the changes made by the preprocessor integration. That results in a very confusing and long outline view when (for example) the DIVISION statements are generated by the prepro...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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