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z/OS Application Development

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We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ).

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ). Now its showing nothing and developer need to open the .log file need to check and its very time consuming. Since IDZ knows that COPYBOOK is picking from the r...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder.

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder. This will help developers to save their tiem to search the individual artifact.properties.
about 4 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox.

When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox and would liek have a fix ASAP in next 17.x version. This is really leading to some confusion during ...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Under review

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Strip EXEC SQL for cursor when running from cobol source

When rearchitecting DB2 interaction between IDz 15 & 16 one of things changed is that running an EXEC SQL declaring a cursor now requires the developer to mark the select statement in v16 while v15 behind the scene stripped out the cursor decl...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Under review

Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Open source language server(s) in IBM Z Open Editor

Not entirely sure if the source for the LSP implementations are made openly available, so please close this off it is. Open sourcing the LSPs for JCL, REXX, COB, ASM, will allow them to be used as extensions to other IDEs.VS Code is popular due to...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

IDz to support BMS Map Subfields.

Need IDz to be able to support the ability to have subfields like in SDF. We have many maps today that use the subfields within SDF.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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