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z/OS Application Development

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Need a way to concatenate library in property group

The current RDz property group cannot allow library concatenation, once users input their own library then it will override the origianl library in the system proc e.g. ELAXLINK.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RDZ V9 - property group - SYSLIB input box

We are using RDz V9 in MVS 3270 environment.In a ?property group? (SYSLIB input box), entering a PDS list is not easy when you have about 20 PDS.Curiously there is a wizard to sort PDS but not to enter a new one.You are forced to make mass data en...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Ability to use push to client connection configurations for the primary system. To push File and Job filters for primar syste

Unable to export Remote System Connections Configurations like File filters and Job filters of the primary system.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz RSE should support the same functionality to non-standard (member begins with numeric) PDS members that ISPF does.

With the Endevor SCM, customers are allowed to name elements/members using non-standard member names (i.e. PDS members that begin with a numeric). With RDz RSE, we allow customers to see non-standard PDS members, using the "MVS Files" preference s...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Turn off autocommit

More info can be found in the PMR "Please see the testcase we created to mimic the problem in a simpler way. Let me know if it is what you are also trying to do. We had hoped there might be a way to turn off the autocommit feature to see if that h...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

JES to support displayof started task

JES should also started task information, now we can only see job information. In many case we need to view the log for started task then we need to go back to ISPF.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

Simplify DBB user build wizard, by hiding fields containing values that don't need to be filled each time

DBB user build asks questions that are relevant to set up the user build, but these questions don't need to be in the developer's face at each user build session (on the same file or on different file). Some fields could be handled as configuratio...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Invoke DBB user build from an editor

Today, to trigger a DBB user build, you need to select the source file from the explorer, right click on it and do "DBB/ DBB user build". When you edit a file in the editor and right click in the editor, you have many actions that are also availab...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

zUnit : manage special file handling

The client uses Delta Macro custom coding for Cobol which places File definitions in a subprogram call and not in the main program. This causes zUnit to not recognize that the program being tested involves file handling.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Option in PG to declare search-libraries for Open Member of "Include Member=xxx" in JCL Files

If i browse/edit a JCL with RDz, i can click Open Member in the context menu and the Member of the specified library - my.data.set(member) - gets opened.In nearly every JCL of our company we also use the //DDNAME INCLUDE MEMBER=xxxxxx Statements, ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered