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More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Associate complete program with include

A developer tries to edit a PL/I include member, which has a complete program associated.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Uncommenting and Commenting Lines in PL/I Editor

In the Eclipse there is the possibility to comment out individual lines of code or entire blocks of code using the shortcut "Ctrl + 7".It would make working with RTC easier if there was a shortcut for the eclipse-based development of PLI in RTC.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

public Compare API for plugin usage

See case TS002883929, currently there is no public IDz API for opening a compare editor in the IDz client while this functionality does already exist(when you select two datasets in the Remote Systems view and select the 'Compare With > Each Ot...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Preprocessing with UTF-8 characters

Parsing Programs with UTF-8 characters causes us Problems with our preprocessor functions
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Remote Pre-processor support for local files

Due to Git usage source code is no longer stored and developed in z/OS rather on the workstation. Presently there is not an IBM solution to invoke and use the Remote pre-processor in IDz on a local file.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Implement way to set CICS/DB2 check in Prop Group temporary on remote syntax check

For us as customer it's not possible to distinguish between modules with/without CICS or DB2 to select the correct property group with/without CICS or DB2. This means, the remote syntax check will always find issues in COBOL sources with EXEC SQL ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Remove the manual step to create a working directory for Remote Host Connector

For IDz v15.0.5 or v16.0.0, user need to manually create a local folder as the "working directory" before they can use Remote Host Connector. This is a very bad user experience as users no need to do so before when it still have HCE. Users will no...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

PL/I-Editor Automatically clear Identifications when you would like to format a source

At the moment you can't format a source when you have pre-processor information for that source available. So you need to clear all identifications manually in order to run the formatter. The formatter is very important for us because eg we do all...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

DB2 Comment -- colors

In the PDP Editor, I would like to be able to configure the color of DB2 comments. In the attached image, you'll see the DB2 comments in red boxes. They look like all of the other code in working storage. Can -- be recognized and highlighted?
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Future consideration