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Host Tooling Integration

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Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

CARMA support for Endevor long names

Our development team doesn't have any more access to ISPF, they develope their work using IDz. Recently we implemented zCEE (z/OS Connect) and we developed the promotion mechanism using Endevor (our SCM). The problem is that IDz CARMA don't suppor...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Support for older version of rocket git, specifically options in .gitattributes file

Please allow backward compatibility of IDz to work with options defined in older version of Rocket Git. Updates for tools can take a long time to complete and having newer versions IDz incompatible with specific versions of Rocket Git causes numer...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to add External Compare tool for bit compare with IDz/RDz

Add ability to add an external tool to do a bit compare using RDz.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

RDz should show JESJCLIN

I am opening this RFE on behalf of CA TITRES (Jean-Olivier Leconte).Product: Rational Developer for System z (RDz).CA TITRES would like to be able to see JESJCLIN when using RDz JES as it can be seen from TSO.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Support Remote files for EST Project Explorer

The "EST Project Explorer" view used for creating IMS SOAP XML Gateway converter modules should allow remote files for source copy books, WSDLs, etc.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

Need to support current line selected for MVS Files in COBOL/JCL editor

1) For developing macros and actions based on Menu Manager, it would be great to have access to the current line with highlighted/select text in the editor window for COBOL and LPEX editors. This could allow much more granular actions whenever a u...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

ControlM for Z/OS plugin

WE need an eclipse plug in to créate and mantain controlm job definitions, and other definitions of this 3rd party software.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

support not just level 1 copy books in IMS SOAP XML gateway mappings

When creating an IMS SOAP XML Gateway mapping, RDz only allows selection of level 1 structures in copy books. However, there are times when we would like to select level 3 or 5 structures of the copy book.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Save mappings and other configs to simplify modifications to web services

When an IMS SOAP XML Gateway web service is modified, RDz should have a way to save the prior settings and to simply make modifications to them instead of having to completely rebuild everything from scratch.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 6 Not under consideration