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Shortcut to toggle the vertial line in the editor

We are using the PL/I editor and our developers who test IDz 14.0.0.5 like the possibility to have a vertical line for alignment of code - this is a big help. But they do complain about a missing shortcut to turn it on/off.It is too time consuming...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

RDz compare program in different CARMA environment

When compare 2 programs in 2 different CARMA Endevor environment, it not show the environment name in the comparison windows. So it is very inconvenience to user to know which one (right or left) is actually in which enviornment. Also missing is s...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Rectangle selection in IDz editor

Rectangle selection is very commonly use in ISPF editor, but in IDz editor this feature is not user friendly in both LPEX and COBOL editor. In System Z LPEX Editor:- need to select in context menu or press "Alt+R" before use, it should allow users...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Toggle new Comment in JCL Editor

The function "Toggle Comment Continuation" (Ctrl+/)in the jcl editor inserts a character (*) on position 72 so that the comment can continue the next line (line beginning with // + one space) it works fine but it is not the recommended way for ins...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Regular expression support in filters

Need the ability to use regular expressions to build data set and job output filters.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Change mfivarsubsaction in Menu Manger to not remember previous entries

We use Menu Manager for a lot of custom actions within IDz, including actions to interact with our SCM, Endevor. We give users the ability to right click a module in the Remote Systems view and select from a range of Endevor actions, like add to E...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

save filter in the outline view

In the view menu of the outline view it is possible to filter the entrys shown. Unfortunately I did not find a way to save the filter. The rfe is about saving the filter or setting a default filter somewhere. I compare the requested feature to a f...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Include Locate Job button in RDz user build

When a user build is submitted, a dialog box is returned with the job number and an informational message to check the JES output to see if the job needs to be purged or reviewed (for the additional host side response).Adding the Locate Job option...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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