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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...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Under review

LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank l...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

LPEX editor should hilight debug lines depending on setting

Similar to the COBOL editor, LPEX should highlight debug lines (lines with 'D' in column 7) depending on the existence of the 'With Debugging Mode' phrase of Source Computer command.COBOL editor highlights these as active code or as comment lines,...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IDz - Unsplit the program lines in the COBOL editor

Hello In the IDz test version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), if any component has unusual splitted lines of code in the source library, then formatting option in IDz editor doesn't unsplit the lines. Pls find a sample case as below ; ------Move tmp-x(2:4)t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Add new option 'FIND ONLY/REPLACE' in the IDz cobol editor

Hello, In the test IDz version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), there is a need to enhance find/replace option. When user wants to find and replace particular occurrences of a word, it wouldn't be possible in the existing 'find/replace' combination. For exam...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

JSON Editor for IDz

Please add a JSON Editor (similar to the XML or SQL Editor)
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IDz product

When positioned on a COBOL paragraph name in IDz, I would like to hold down the control key and cause the paragraph name to become a hyperlink. At when the link is selected, a Find command will be implemented, positioning me at the first Perform v...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Associate complete program with include

A developer tries to edit a PL/I include member, which has a complete program associated.
almost 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 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Data Flow to include 88-clauses

The data flow tools don't measure the data flow for 88-clauses of variables although even the compiled assembler listing is identical. We expect the data flow also to handle 88-clauses as if they are a specific value of the main variable.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration