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Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Export in Search View

In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Debugger in RDz - PL1 handles, types (PMR 18464,010,678 )

Debug Tool in RDz(Rational Developer for system Z V9.1) is owned by IBM, hence we have to make a Request for enhancement to them to get this to work. My experience is that this can take a while before the fix this. We can use memory maps in then d...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Real-time syntax check should diagnose data-type problems

The real-time syntax checker of LPEX or the COBOL editor fails to diagnose arithmetic upon alphameric data. With the following example: 01 DATA1 PICTURE X(5). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ADD 1 TO DATA1. SUBTRACT 1 FROM DATA1. MULTIPLY 5 BY DATA1. DIVIDE 7...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Move "Identify Unreachable Code" from Source Menu iItem to the Refractor menu item

Context Menu in COBOL Editor, Identify Unreachable Code in the Source Mune Item should go to the Refractor menu item where Remove Noise Words and identify Noise words is.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to check the state of saving a source in the APIs of IDz

In our own-written IDz-plugin using the IDz-APIs we have to start an additional process to write the source from the Mainframe-dataset to our SCM as soon as the editor is closed. Therefore we need the possibility to find out whether the saving to ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to copy/paste text file with null character in RDz editors (Cobol)

RDz editors (Cobol, etc) do not have a way to allow cut/paste beyond a null-terminated string.When pasted into RDz, the file is truncated at the null-terminated line.Notepad editor replaces nulls with spaces and that is why it works in notepad. Ca...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

ISPF ONLY command

"ONLY" EDIT-macro delivered with ISPF. ONLY works exactly as a EXCLUDE ALL followed by a FIND <needle> ALL. SISPSAMP library in member ISRONLY. ONLY string | EXCLUDE string? to show or exclude lines with string in their name
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Popup Window "Manage Licenses" stops RDz unexpectedly

RDz Version 9.0.1.0. In the "Manage Licenses" window RDz will be closed without any hint.A click on the "x" for closing window ends the complete RDz. By the focus pre assignment to "Leave Workbench" the whole RDz will be stopped with a "Return Cli...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Not under consideration

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