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COBOL (and PL/I) editor Open Declaration should be in browse mode

Exactly same description as in ID: 31959 COBOl and PL/I editor Open Declaration should be in browse mode not in edit mode
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

LPEX : Have a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHave a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection, which can be found by right after clicking then Selected File Selection -> Fill Selection...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

LPEX : New preference for having Rectangle Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHaving Rectangle Select be able to select one less character when using rectangle selection in LPEX Editor (ispf mode).
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Map Generator of IDZ 14.1 for PLI truncates comments of fields used to build PLI structure names

IDZ 14.1 for PLI - Map Generator Comments of Fields in BMS Sourcefiles are truncated to 7 chars. Therefore structure names are limited to 7 chars. BMS Source-Files that have been used on z/OS to generate PLI Includes with SDF-II on z/OS. We know, ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add Endevor's batch list element option to CARMA ‘custom' tab

To enable batch 'List Elements' to be available from the IDz client when using CARMA 'custom' tab.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

customized "lookup" features of customer application help

Lookup is a feature brought from "fault anaylzer integration", customer can search message/code/error explaination thru inputting keywords. All the current feature just cover COBOL,CICS, LE and so on about z/OS project. It will be help if we can c...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz: support for -INC ABC. ( a period at the end ) - see PMR 28219,300,624

We are resquesting support for -INC ABC. ( a period at the end ), as per discussion in PMR 28219,300,624
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

JCL substitution works at steps level, not at job level

In RDz, in a property group, there's a tabl JCL substitution for steps like COBOL, PL/I, LInk, Run, but not for JCL; This means you cannot use substitution variables for the whole job. The only way to achieve this is follow the steps described in ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Have real-time errors and warnings be placed into a tab/view for ease of viewing

We would like to have the errors and warnings that are produced during real-time syntax checking be placed into a tab/view such as the Remote Error List or the general Problems views. It would also be nice for the behaviour of items in the list to...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Provide interface for zUnit-Testing

We would need the possibility to call and to interact with the zUnit-Framework within our own-developed interface to our SCM. The following functionaries should be provided:- Interface to forward the dataset containing the Cobol-/PLI-source as wel...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

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