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Rendering Name filter results is very slow in Show In > Data Elements view

The Name filter is very slow when a program has a lot of variable. There should be an option to turn the key press listener off and only re-render the list when the Enter key is pressed.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Add Open Perform Hierarchy from Show In > Data Elements view

Open Declaration and Occurrences in Compilation Unit are available in the Data Elements view. Open Perform Hierarchy needs to be added.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor: Behavior of Manage Sequence Numbers

When you activate function "Manage Sequence Numbers" you can insert characters in position 1 to 72 without shifting the sequence number (position 73 to 80) to the right.But when there is a character in position 72 and you continue to type you will...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Future consideration

optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Increase ease of use for updating SYSLIB in remote property group definitions

Currently the SYSLIB definition in property groups is presented as a single field containing several blank-separated data set names.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

save more eclipse view preferences

We're facing the fact, that some preferences for views are not saved when closing and reopening the IDz client. For example there are views that do keep the size and order of their columns whereas other views don't. Or there are views that have th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

COBOL Editor Toggle Comment

Toggle Comment function isn't able to return to previous state. Sample: If you use toggle comment (CTRL+/) for several marked lines and there was already a commented line in one of those lines, the result may not be the expected one. In that case,...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

"bypass generate processor" check box on the edit/retrieve SCM endevor panel is irrelevant.

when editing or retrieving an element from endevor SCM. in the EDIT/RETRIVE pannel one of the options is :"bypass generate processor" . this check box is irrelevant. since when editing no generation should be performed. so it has to be checked wit...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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