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Allow for different color schemes based on connection

Would like to be able to customized a unique color scheme based on a connection. Example: If I was to access a members on LPAR1 it would have a say a light blue hue background. If I was to access LPAR2 it would have a green hue background.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Copybook automatic length calculation

Our RDz developers would find it very usefull to have a feature integrated in RDz editors to display copybook length when they are browsed or edited: length information can concern each variable or whole record defined in the copybook.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

Filtres sur tables DB2

Dans la perspective "Donn?es" lorsqu'on applique un filtre sur une table DB2, on ne peut pas combiner des crit?res "ou" Exemple : filtre sur tables commen?ant par les caract?res TN ou TV
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Base the outline view on the cobol ast

All the nice features included in the Cobol editor work based on the AST. Except one. The outline view is based on the contents of the editor. We have used the precompiler extension to correct the AST including our Cobol makros into the editor. Al...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Call Perform Hierarchy from Program Control Flow

You show a Cobol programm in the Programm Control Flow View. Please add an entry to the contextmenu to link this view to the Perform Hierarchy View. Something like "show this section in the Perform Hierarchy". The two views show different but cloe...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Position of the preprocessor options in the context menus of cobol and lpex editors

The integration of the preprocessor is in the LPEX in the context menu. But in the Cobol editor it is hidden under Souce. Please present the options at the same postitions in the context menus. I do not care where. But it should be equal.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Incomplete ToolTip for a Cobol-group-variable in the Cobol Editor

In the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION you define a group variable. This variable has many (more than 8) members in the group. For example: 1 DLI-FUNK. 2 GU-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GU". 2 GN-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GN". 2 GNP-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GNP". 2 GHU-FKT P...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Add a bookmark with a double click in the Cobol editor

In the LPEX editor you are able to add a bookmark with a double click on the column on the left side of the editor. You are not able to do that in the Cobol editor. Why not? When you do a double click in the cobol editor nothing happens.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Flagging Changed Lines in Cobol Editor

In the LPEX Editor you are able to select "Start Flagging Changed Lines" to autocomment lines you edit. This feature is missing in the Cobol editor but would be very useful.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDz should not close all my windows(Edit session of remote files) when my remote system connection lost

RDz is closing all my windows when Remote system connection lost. This was changed RDz 9.0 version onwords. Earlier it used to work fine.There was a design change from RDz 9.0.1 on words.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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