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PL/I-Editor - Copy/Paste Behaviour

When we have some lines with code starting on Column 1 we can select this lines and do an indent with the tab key. As you can see within the first video this indent operation will preserve Column 1 – so all characters beginning with Column 2 will ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

PL/I-Editor Right Margin Behaviour

Within the preferences of the PL/I-Editor you can enable “Disable Right Margin” and identifiy the Column for that margin (eg 73). With hat margin enabled we would like to see the same behaviour that you have with the LPEX-Editor – that means that ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Not under consideration

PLI Editor - "Color Highlightning" for Conditional and Looping Statements

Our Developers would like to have different colour codes within the PL/I-Editor for Code Nesting. This feature should work WITHOUT using the pre-processor! Let´s take the following example: DO K = 1 TO 10; SELECT (AVALUE); WHEN (‘0') IF BVALUE = C...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

PL1- Editor pre-processor results for includes with mouse-over return only first include

When we open a preprocessed PL/1 Program an Hoover with mouse over to an include.The whole following Includes are shown till a Statement follows.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Support for DBCS characters with Host code page:IBM-1399/Local code page:CP943 in z Systems Data Editor

Support for DBCS characters with Host code page:IBM-1399/Local code page:CP943 in z Systems Data Editor.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support for SOSI pseudo characters in z Systems Data Editor

I don't see SOSI pseudo characters when opening a dataset in z Systems Data Editor.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to view HEX format for a full screen.

Many of our applications rely on binary data and HEX bitmaps to be analyzed. ISPF allows for developers to see an entire screen of data in HEX format. IDz, does not appear to provide this same capabillity. This is hindering developers from migrati...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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