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RDz Menu Manager, JCL Substitution uppercasing mixed case variable values

Environment Details:RDz 8.0.3 Customer Impact:Menu Manager can not handle mixed case variable values in $input Customers Problem Description:The customer needs to submit JCL that contains mixed case variable names and also standard (required) uppe...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

OPen a migrated dataset

In the remote system view, when you try to open (by double click) a migrated dataset, nothing happens.You get no message at all. A shot popup message would be welcome. A nicer solution would be to propose in that popup window to recall the dataset...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

RDz V9.1のサポートについて

z/OS V2.3にレベルアップを予定しているが、RDz V9.1がサポート対象外となっている。
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Delivered

LPEX should totally verify JCL statements

I opened a PMR (25284) about "invalid control of LPEX for IF THEN ELSE statements in JCL".We have been told that LPEX is not designed to verify completly JCL statements.We think that LPEX should entirely verify JCL statements syntax, as it does fo...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Present a more meaningful message when Remote Syntax Check is called with "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources.

Present the IDz user a more meaningful profesional message when calling Remote Syntax Check with shortcut "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources. Currently IDz users receive an unexpected and unclear technical exception error dialog when...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

RD/z dataset list function needs to display correct date and userid for pds member

1. The dates on some files are 2001/01/01 in IBM Rational Developer for System z. This is seen in the Remote Systems Details view or in the Properties view of the file. --> It should display blanks or "temporarily unavailable" instead of 2001/0...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Enhance th eexport/import process in RD/z

If I wish to setup some "global" (i.e. all developers) preferences...the export process is in many places. It would be advantageous for us (and I assume many others) to be able to go to a single place to export (the same for import) and select whi...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

hide permanently the Host Emulator keypad

in the Host Emulator, you can hide the key pad by clicking on the - minus sign. Nice.But when you close then restart the Host emulator, the key pad appears again. RDz should keep somewhere the info the user does not want the keypad (new preference...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Allow to search for all occurences of a string from regexp in current editor

Allow to search for all occurences from regexp in current editor The COBOL editor includes several possibilities to search for text. There is, for example, the Edit>Search/Replace... which provides a way to jump from one occurence of the search...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Provide a convenient toggle to disable/enable the Real Time Analyzer

Currently, the Real Time Analyzer can be disabled/enabled via a Preference setting. However, when disabled then enabled any open source member has to be closed and reopened for the analysis to start working again. This needs to be fixed. When re-e...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered