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RD/z "Light"

Software developers here will be getting RD/z on their development PCs soon. But, we have quite a few other users that don't need language or debugging support but would use ISPF & SDSF views etc. Hence the term RD/z Light. I would envision RD...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Make available toggle comment in LPEX-Editor as like as in Eclipse

Make available the 'toggle comment' in LPEX-Editor as like as in Eclipse instead of or additional to 'comment' and 'uncomment' Eclipse users which are also using RDZ are a little bit confused about the missing functionality
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Not under consideration

Incompatibility between WPS and WD/z - Random data in the COBOL fields associated with the missing tags from WPS

We use WDforZ to produce a WSDL and adapter programs for SOAP for CICS communications with WebSphere Process Server (WPS). We have found that WPS does not always send all the XML tags from the WSDL file (sometimes if there is nothing to send, star...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz's Menu Manager for Zions Bank Enhancement #5

Extend Menu Manager's ability to markup and execute Dialog Manager apps, CLISTS and User created ISPF macros.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

new icon to jump to Host emulator quickly

now to open the Host emulator, customer must from the Remote System, right click on MVS Files --> Host Connection Emulator.Cust would like an icon to be added to the same view (like the one: Defining a connection to a remote system).
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

RDz projects should not disappear from user workspace when resources are moved by the source management application

The following text is taken from the IBM answer in PMR 08907,300,624 Currently RDz has no way of knowing what happened to the files when they are moved by a different application and so we remove the reference from our subprojects. We can look int...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Automate Population of zOS Properties

RDz needs a wizard where the user specifies a job output residing in JES where the data sets required for zOS properties are identified and populated into a new Property Group or an existing property group.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Need easy way to enter some data in hex on expression of breakpoints

When entering data in the EXPRESSION field on the optional parameters panel for a BREAKPOINT I don't have an easy way of entering just one byte of a 20 byte value that is a non displayable hex value. Say I want the expression to be: CARD="ALL CHAR...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Clear project related configuration files for host based z/OS Projects

We are using host based projects for our development on z/OS, and in some (rare) cases, a host project isn't loaded in IDz. This seems to be related to an unwanted loss (network,host-side) of the host connection. To overcome this issue, some proej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future 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...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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