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User Credential sharing/centralization as in PD Tools Studio

Hello,I found this RFE from 2012 that describes a similar feature request:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=20282 To make RDz much more comfortable, it would be an idea, to have a Login-Sharing or Credential ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Carma, retrieve component using Extract to... gets the extension of the Endevor type instead of the PDS type

Carma, retrieve component using Extract to... gets the extension of the Endevor type instead of the PDS type The problem is that the developer can not properly use extensions.A retrieved component from Carma using Extract to... does not have the e...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Autosave in PL/I and JCL editor

In LPEX there are an autosave facility. This is not the case for PL/I and JCL editors. Our users want this feature because they want a local save of the file in the editor. In z/OS Project we use mainframe files, but an autosave should go to the d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz should facilitate easier export/import specific test data from DB2 databases.

Rational Developer for System z should facilitate to export specifictest data from source (dev/test) databases and import this data intotarget (test/dev) databases. Currently the database Export/Import functionality is aimed at savingand restoring...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz Host Connection Emulator font type

We would like to set/change the RDz Host Connection Emulator font type.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Cross Reference in CARMA Endevor

We would like CARMA to enhance to support SEARCH (cross referencing) function, which could fulfill the following: - search a particular text phrase that appear in any elements in Endeovr (system specific) - search and return a list of element whic...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Extract To function should not be tightly coupled to CARMA view and MVS subproject

The "Extract To" function is a neat feature that allow developers to associate program modules to the CARMA source control (Endevor in our case). However, this function is so tightly coupled that it severely limits its usage. 1) It ties to a parti...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

RDz Should give a meaningfull message when problems are detected parsing XML files

Rational Developer for System z should give a meaningfull message when problems are detected parsing XML files. Technote 1635150 describes a case of a NullPointerException on a Remote Syntax Check where the starck trace tells us that the problem i...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz: Fix Ctrl-Z "Undo" function

When using Ctrl-Z from withing the LPex editor the Undo function will cycle through previously undone changes, placing them back into the code. Original state... make change1...Ctrl-Z undoes change 1 and source is back to original state...make cha...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Cobol document generation

Currently, we have coding standards to ask the developer to write the enough comments in the program so that we can understand logic.In the Java world, there is a JavaDoc solution which have a set of rules and tools to generate the document for th...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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