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    Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

    It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / Editors / VSCODE 1 Future consideration

    Remote C/C++ Editor Development

    Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Submitted

    IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

    When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

    LPEX EDITOR command line should also support hex value search similar to tso 3.4 ex f x'0D'

    LPEX EDITOR command line should also support hex value search similar to tso 3.4 ex f x'0D' . Please refer IBM case TS016750744.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Needs more information

    Adding UTF-8 support to the CARMA repositories view

    In the CARMA repositores view you can view and edit source files stored in Endevor. However some sourcetypes are in UTF-8 (in our case wsdl's and xsd's) but on the moment sources in UTF-8 cannot be viewed or editted because it is not supported by ...
    10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

    SQL code completion - better suggestions

    The SQL code completion in idz 17.0.2 using ctrl+space always displays all db2 objects such as schemas, tables and columns.I can define a schema filter via the preference.With many tables it is still difficult to recognize which objects I want to ...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

    IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

    Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

    Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

    Bracket matching in COBOL

    Bracket matching is a feature in Eclipse that allows you to visually match opening brackets to closing brackets to get an even better overview about what parts of the code to belong to each other. That feature seems to be missing in the COBOL Edit...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to collapse/expand EVALUATE/IF/PERFORM statements for COBOL source

    For the COBOL editor, today it is possible to expand or collapse a division, section or paragraph using the plus/minus icon in the left margin next to the division or section name. We would like to have the same functionality for EVALUATE, PERFORM...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

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