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Provide GUI screen showing all ports that may be configured along which one have been configured

I would like to see a single screen available that lists all ports that can be configured, along with which ones have values assigned coupled with an explanation alongside of the use of that port. This screen should preferably allow the change of ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Builder : better support of Spuffi editing

When editing an SQL file coming from a PDS (LRECL 80) with SQL and XQuery Editor, there is no message preventing you that you exceed the column 80.It could be useful to set a preferences to limit to a specific size, to show a limit line, maybe to ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RD/z workspace is destroyed when ctrl-alt-del

Sometimes RD/z Windows client tries to do something that causes a hang with an hour-glass cursor. It may remain an hour-glass for a few minutes or forever. Customers then do ctrl-alt-del to break out of it. There is a good chance that they have ju...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor REXX Highlighting for functions is wrong

LPEX marks user-written procedure/functions in REXX the same way like keywords and built-in functions. This should not happen. Following solution proposal:All self-defined functions will be highlighted by a different highlight option and all built...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Provide a row/column filter for the Table Editor in the Data Perspective

Most user testing DB2 tables contain well over 100,000 rows, and often 40 --> 200 columns. This make sthe Table Editor very much less useful. Many companies have clamored for this - as they feel the Data Perspective is a very useful part of RDz...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Have the Perform Hierarchy be able to drill into nested cobol programs.

In cobol if I have a nested program the perform Hierarchy view does not let me drill down into that code. The editor should know it is a nested cobol program and let me keep drilling down that logic path. I have to then go back to the outline view...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 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 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

z/OS TCPIP/telnet signon screen doesn't show reason for invalid new password

When changing passwords in the telnet signon screen, and the new password is invalid; the message received is just New Password is invalid. It doesn't show the actual reason for being invalid (ex. TSS7111E New Password (Change) Invalid - At Least ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Cannot expand the copybooks in the outline view.

The current implementation (RDz V8.0.3.1) does not allow for expanding copybooks from the outline view.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration