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Host Tooling Integration

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Support for MQ Explorer in RDz

From the standpoint of having one IDE where all interfaces are available and developers no longer need to switch from product to product we would like to have MQ Explorer as a plugin within RDz.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

Certificate Filter

an extra option in the Preferences page where the user can specify the extra filter criteria for the correct certification key usage.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

sysout depth when job active

when a job is still running,the sysout's depth in RDz is no as big as in SDSF. In case of batch old style's tracing (like a Display every 1000 records read or written), you cannot see if the pgm is still running correctly)
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 5 Delivered

delete of PDS or files toot easy from RDz

if from the z/OS Projects view a user right click on a PDS or a file under a PDS and Delete, a window pops up telling: Warning: the remote object is permanently deleted. But it's too easy to delete by mistake. In ISPF if you want to delete, you ne...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 9 Delivered

RSE daemon loops

RDz RSE daemon was found using high CPU, suspected to be looping. This is discussed in PMR 70070,057,649.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Showing the stepname in JES monitor

Customer wants to be able to see the stepname of an executing job when using the JES monitor
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Ability to import/export breakpoints like the java debugger does

There are problems with import/export of the breakpoints-view of the remote-debug perspective, receiving Java NPE. Import/export was not intended to be a supported function for compiled language debugger, but the menu was enabled for use.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Mixed Case Handling

Testing the Retrieve and Add functions ? actually moving elements into and out of Endevor. On the Retrieve Element screen it appears that some fields are case aware (upper/lower case must match) while others are not. The Element name, Target data ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered