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Userbuild resubmit Job

Starting a userbuild with already generated Job often causes failures
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Improve dark mode

It's useful for all developers that love dark mode (my self included) - it is also more energy-efficient! But the current state of your dark mode option is still missing a lot :( Some issues I have found with dark mode: 1. The text in the search-f...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Add ability to group remote systems and filters

Add ability to group filters and collapse and expand the groups in Remote Systems View.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Blockmode in IDz editors

In PL/I (and properbly Cobol) editors the blockmode-function is very slow if you select say 500-800 lines. If you pass about 1000 lines it will just hang IDz.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Rectangle selection in IDz editor

Rectangle selection is very commonly use in ISPF editor, but in IDz editor this feature is not user friendly in both LPEX and COBOL editor. In System Z LPEX Editor:- need to select in context menu or press "Alt+R" before use, it should allow users...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

DB2 statements not directly with commit

At SQL scripts to attack DB2, we need something to just see the affected rows, or to preview the results of an update/delete/insert statement but not directly commiting the data, as at the Spufi, with some option to check in order to have this pre...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

IDz Syntax Check Facility with Preprocessor

We set up the Syntax Check Facility as described in knowledge Center. The remote error lists is populated with Compiler Messages, but Points to a remote file. We excpect the link to the file in the local z- Component Project. We use a preprocessin...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

z/OS Project View Should Support Refresh

When importing a project via the Git Repositories view, the z/OS Project view does not always update. This is indicative of the view not receiving the UI hook when another view updates the filesystem. I've had to close and then reopen the view on ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Software Analysis reports by file instead of by rule

Within the Client and also in host, RDZ software analysis report always lists violations by rule. A per program order would make reports easier to read - for both client and batch invocations.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add color coding for DO's/END's in LPEX and other editors

Add the ability in the different editors to have DO's/END's color coded. First level DO/END would be one color, say red, second level DO/END would be another color, say white, etc. This would make it easier to be sure your DO's are properly termin...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration