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    Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

    Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    IDz Retrive data set: allow wildcard in dataset name pattern on first qualifier

    In ISPF (option 3.4 Dslist) we have the option to use wildcard on first qualifier Via IDz with the simular action 'Retreive data set' it is not possible to put a wildcard on the first qualifier In our shop with our naming convention we often use a...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    Debugger in RDz - PL1 handles, types (PMR 18464,010,678 )

    Debug Tool in RDz(Rational Developer for system Z V9.1) is owned by IBM, hence we have to make a Request for enhancement to them to get this to work. My experience is that this can take a while before the fix this. We can use memory maps in then d...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

    Real-time syntax check should diagnose data-type problems

    The real-time syntax checker of LPEX or the COBOL editor fails to diagnose arithmetic upon alphameric data. With the following example: 01 DATA1 PICTURE X(5). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ADD 1 TO DATA1. SUBTRACT 1 FROM DATA1. MULTIPLY 5 BY DATA1. DIVIDE 7...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Support VSAM RLS access in node.js

    VSAM files read/write are performed in CICS and batch applications in MVS. For node.js to access the data concurrently, VSAM RLS is required.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 1 Future consideration

    Export in Search View

    In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

    Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

    Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

    Move "Identify Unreachable Code" from Source Menu iItem to the Refractor menu item

    Context Menu in COBOL Editor, Identify Unreachable Code in the Source Mune Item should go to the Refractor menu item where Remove Noise Words and identify Noise words is.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Add ability to copy/paste text file with null character in RDz editors (Cobol)

    RDz editors (Cobol, etc) do not have a way to allow cut/paste beyond a null-terminated string.When pasted into RDz, the file is truncated at the null-terminated line.Notepad editor replaces nulls with spaces and that is why it works in notepad. Ca...
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to check the state of saving a source in the APIs of IDz

    In our own-written IDz-plugin using the IDz-APIs we have to start an additional process to write the source from the Mainframe-dataset to our SCM as soon as the editor is closed. Therefore we need the possibility to find out whether the saving to ...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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