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RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Tape Managment Support

Enhance RDz to provide basic tape management support. Currently we use RMMI from ISPF but would like to see a GUI interface at some point to support mainframe developers.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Exclude Records option in MVS files

We have (Exclude records) option in file manager plug in. Is it possible to have similar functionality under MVS files.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Support MACLIB for HLASM without manually keying each one in

Allow the HLASM editor to pull in dataset concatenations for MACLIB similar to how PLI and COBOL allow it.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

CCSID / Codepage 1377 EBCDIC with HKSCS-2008 support should be added to RDz Client V8 & V9

Currently, the RDz V8 & V9 Client only support Host Code page IBM-937 for Traditional Chinese. However, IBM-937 does not support HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set) standard. RDz Client should be enhanced to support Host Code Page IB...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Add support for C/C++ in Software Analyzer feature for default RDz

RDz out of the box does not provide support for C/C++ in the Software Analyzer rules. However, if you install RDAixLinux, then you do get some analyzer rules. However, some of those rules are specific for the POWER processor. I would prefer some t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Arrows in program flow diagram

The program flow diagram shows sections and paragraphs and arrows. Arrows represent two kinds of events: PERFORM and "fall through". . This is pretty nice. However I see one improvement possible: make a distinction between the two types of arrows:...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement on RDz Code Formatter

We want RDz Code Formatter to extend it's current capabilities to support auto indentation more keywords, perferred but not limited to the belowVALUE, OCCURS, INDEXED, PIC, TO, COMP, COMP-3 The indentation should be able to parameterize to fit dif...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support Graphic option in RDz Host Emulator

In PCOMM it can enable the "Graphic" option, but we can't see the same option in RDz host emulator.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Compare files

RDz compares are great if the files are small. I need a compare process for bigger files that will only provide the differences. Allow an option on the compare process that will return only differences in the compare windows. I would expect the fi...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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