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Usability

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Notifications or News from any user or admin

Provide a way for an "administrator" to issue messages to all users currently logged on to RSE server or post News that will be pushed to users as they connect to RSE
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Delivered

Limit number of JES jobs displayed in RDz for performance issues

When pulling back more than 100 or so jobs by creating a JES filter, the response time can be as great as 30 minutes for 1600 jobs, in spite of no CPU constraints when viewed in RMF or BMC Mainview performance monitoring tools. There was a similar...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Delivered

mapping left Ctrl key

in ISPF left Ctrl = reset, right Ctrl = Enter. In Rdz you cannot map Ctrl only in preferences --> General --> Keys. And you cannot make a diff between left and right.A solution could be to allow left and right Ctrl in the binding field.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 8 Delivered

JMON: extra informations needed

In RDz, "Remote System Details" some extra informations available in SDSF DA should be added be added: . STEPNAME : to see what the job is currently doing . IO : a counter for I/O done at an instant t . CPU-TUME : to figure out what the actuel CPU...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Limit the " Collect Logs " to one day

Often, when we try to use the " Collect Logs " function, the process doesn't end due to a timeout an hour later : we have a big audit.log and the function is way too long. Is it possible to search in audit.log only the logs of the day to optimize ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Specify a custom Db2 for z/OS connection name

Currently, when a connection to a Db2 subsystem is created it only specifies the host name and LOCATION. From my experience, developers don't know the LOCATION but only the common name of the subsystem. It would be nice if developers could specify...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

IDz missing Code Metrics functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the ability to run metrics on PL/I code is not available. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall Mainframe needs.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

more flexibility on RTC user build job name

The job cards for an RTC user build are taken from the preferences. It is possible to specify a fixed job name or to use the only available variable <JOBNAME>. The variable <JOBNAME> will resolve to &SYSUID;1 at runtime (with &...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

PushToClient snippets

Currently,it is not possible to import automatically the snippets on all workstations RDz.We would like to do this with the PushToClient
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Column indicator line in Cobol editor

A preference is available in LPEX. Customer would like the same in COBOL editor. It is:LPEX Editor -> z Systems LPEX Editor -> COBOL parser -> Controls -> Column indicator line -> check box: Enable a vertical line that indicates the...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered