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CARMA - Remember association regardless of search method

I do 'Search' in CARMA by specifying CPN* as element name (everything else System, sub-system, ect. is *). I find member and do 'Extract to' a 'Remote project'. Now, if I expand folders and drill down to the same member in ISODEV, SBU1, STND, ENTM...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz/IDz - Prompt for override signout option in CARMA

When an element is added/updated in Endevor through CARMA, we would like to have a prompt if the Override signout option is checked in the "Edit Element" menu. Right now, configurable prompts are available from Preferences>CARMA for deletion an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDZ Copy-Paste incomplete

You have a dataset with X'00' somewhere inside. You press CTRL-A to select everything, CTRL-C to copy everything and in a new dataset CTRL-V to paste everything. But only the beginning of the dataset is pasted. The last byte is the character just ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor Enhancements - Find/Replace, Auto Comments, and User Commands/Actions

Cobol Editor Enhancements - Find/Replace, Auto Comments, and User Commands/Actions
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RDz's COBOL Editor do not handle substrings correctly

We have the following scenario 01 TEXT PIC X(20). 01 CHAR PIC X(1). MOVE TEXT(1) TO CHAR. The MOVE statement is incorrect it SHOULD have beeen MOVE TEXT(1:1) TO CHAR The error was detected during the compileprocess, but should have been recognized...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Explorer needs an IM local download for installs

z/OS Explorer needs a downloadable IM install without having to install the package utility.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz to ship a version of CDT matching its Eclipse base

RDz 9.5.1 comes with a preinstalled CDT version 8.1.100 while the CDT version for Eclipse Luna v4.4 is 8.6, see https://eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php It will be better to ship the CDT version recommended on the CDT web site.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Make Available RDz ASTNode API outside of code review rules

When writing custom COBOL code review rules, the java class generated uses ASTNode API.This API enables to parse the COBOL program and identify each COBOL construct.Make this ASTNode API available outside of custom COBOL code rules to be readily a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Code Review Summary %

Custom cobol code review rules, can it produce a % (percentage) of how many anti patterns were found in the cobol code and based on % (say >70%), return different MVS return codes
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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