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In RDz version 8.0.3, inline macros being flagged as invalid. These are valid and should be not be flagged as errors.

In RDz version 8.0.3, Assembler macros must be defined in either the base or user macro file so that the programs that use them will not flag as an error. This process does not take into account inline macros and they are being flagged as invalid....
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

The ability to override a property group needs to be available at the dataset level

Currently the ability to override a property group exists at the member level only. When setting up PDS's on the mainframe they are normally set up by project. As such any property group overrides necessary for one module in the PDS is normally ne...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

Possibility to select any first qualifier when allocating MVS files

When we try to allocate an MVS dataset (MVS Files Allocate or "Allocate Like"), the high level qualifier is required as the Userid or a list of indexes corresponding to first level qualifier of existing filters.The user should be able to specify a...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

CobolZosCopy-parser should handle cobol copybooks containing cobol coding

CobolZosCopy-parser handles cobol copybooks as if they can only contain data. If the copybooks contain coding instead of data there is no cobol support like content assist, perform hierarchy etc. We would expect the CobolZosCopy-parser to handle c...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Loding of datasetinformation is very slow

You display a memberlist in the remote system details view and a lot of the information has to be loaded. For example size, creation date and userid. It takes a long time to load the information. I have measuered about 8 seconds for just 20 member...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Support WSDL-Validation for ws-i compliance as RAD does

RDZ doesn't support the same service policies for validation of WSDL-Files as RAD does. In RDZ, we can select Service Policies/Profile Compliance WS-I AP 1.0 and WS-I BP 1.1 + SSBP 1.0. In RAD we can select the same Compliance and additional WS-I ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Media distribution for Rational Developer for System/z

The quantity of CDs for RD/z is somewhat ridiculous (I think that 7.6 has 58 CDs). A much more preferable option would be to put the client CDs onto a portable harddrive. The install should be modified (if necessary) so that after all upfront sele...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

Using RDz with BMS editor, need to have a preference for EXTATTS= NO or YES

Working with RDz 7.5.1 and BMSThe customer is using only EXTATT=NOthe default is EXTATT=YESthere is no possibility to modify this default value in the preferencesThe customer is obliged each time he works with a new BMS to change the option EXTATT...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

can you provide the function to be able to PIN a remote system Detail

I would like to be able to pin a remote system detail view so that when I open a second "show in Table" the first one doesn't disappear.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Support for Ubuntu Linux as RDz client OS

Currently SLES and RHEL Linux distributions are supported Client operating systems for RDz. We are looking for official IBM support for Ubuntu Clients.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

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