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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 ...
over 11 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
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

IDZ 14.2.2. does not allow zUNIT to compile option to be DYNAM

IDZ does not allow to compile option to be DYNAM. Need that feature for zUNIT to work in IDZ ( standalone) with Dynamic option
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 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...
almost 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.
about 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.
about 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...
about 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
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

warning for not being converted character

When client opens mainframe file, client converts SOSI character without any message. so, at that time, customer wants to get warning message of automatic "SOSI" conversion.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Expanding Snippet functionality

Snippets in RDz offers you the ability to include code templates with or withour variable substitution.Many code snippets requires code inserted in other sections of COBOL or/and could benefit from inline programming logic to make the snippets mor...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration