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Usability

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RDz: Bi-directional (BiDi) text is not taken into account in job output.

In RDz, use of Bi-Directional (BiDi) set of characters is not possible in the Job output. (Messages are returned from left to right while written right to left).
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

"?" should be used as a single wildcard character in Remote Z/OS search

The Remote z/OS Search panel in an older version of RDz (RD/z 7.6.2.4) supports using characters "?" and "*" as part of the member name search. The version that we are using (8.5.1) doesn't allow "?" as part of the member name. In ISPF, we can use...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Take care of Byte 7 in Cobol and LPEX Editor

Editing Cobol in LPEX or COBOL Editor the Comment/Uncomment Option does not recognize existing characters at Byte 7 (space, *, -). It overrides these characters. Please take care of the byte 7.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

More preferences for System z Data Editor

- Allow users to setup different colour preference for the text shown. For example, the colour in HEX should be different from the original row data. - Allow a vertical line to be shown, it helps to align the column position with different rows.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

DB2 table edit - sort or filter required.

See attachment.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

RDz JES Filter - would like to show more info

Would like the ability to see more data in the JES Filter. Right now it only shows the job name, if it could show comments it would make searching for jobs much easier.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve the performance in RDz client when displaying the contents of a "large" PDS "as a table" in the Rem. Sys. Details vw

From the RDz client Remote Systems view, a user has the option to display the contents of a PDS file "as a table". When doing this, each PDS member's "statistics" are displayed as a row in a table that is displayed in the Remote System Details vie...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Finding non printable characters in Editor

Some datasets from z/OS can't be opened with LPEX due to codepage restrictions. It would be very helpful to have a equivalent to ISPF-Editor command Find p'.', which points to the location of the character(s), that prevents the file from being edi...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

RDz-JES: deleting jobs with DEL-key

In the jes-monitor within remote system view you can delete jobs via context menue, but not by pressing the DEL-key. It would be useful to have this function on a key.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Display property groups in alphabetical order

The property groups displayed in the Property Group Manager currently appear to be displayed in "chronological order". When, as in our case, a large number of property groups are involved (>30 and growing), it is very difficult to find the corr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered