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z/OS Application Development

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RDz - Run Software Analyzer batch against selected files

I know I can scan an entire PDS. Suppose the PDS contains 10 files and I want to scan 3 of them in a single run. How can I do so?
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RDz zUnit Enhancement - be easy and intuitive to use for the developer

More UI for more code generation is required for the test case program coding. It should further minimize the deveoloper effort to code the Test runner.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

A better handling for RDz disconnect due to client exceed idle time

If RDz client exceed for idle time, it will prompted "RSEG1057" error message and saying the connection fail. It is a misleading message and will make users confusion. It would be better to have a more precise message, e.g. "You have idle for more...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Provide Error Feedback for Remote RDz Compiles

In RDz z/OS Projects Perspective when setting up a Property Group there is a compile option box to "Support Error Feedback". This allows compiler error messages to be displayed in the RDz Remote Error List. This option currently only works for loc...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

z/OS RDz v9.0 Java v7.0 64-bit support needed

In order to address an issue with memory constraints with RDz v9.0, Java v7.0 64-bit was needed.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Simplify the process for RDz v9 zUNIT to generate the runner configuration

In RDz v9, we can right click a load module and select zUnit to generate runner configuration file (.azucfg). However, it requires users to prealloate a PDS which is in VBA with LRECL 16383. This is not easy to locate the information and it should...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Custom skipping preprocessor first matching characters

To support a maximum number of legacy Cobol preprocessors, this property allows to define which lines of code should be considered as a preprocessing line and so should be ignored when parsing the Cobol source code. For example, if this property i...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

TDAT file are dispyed with wrong hebrew

large program or SEQ file with many data elements, we can map the program to be a TDAT filethis gives us a table identation of the file and show us only some of the file content (accordingto preferences) and so helps with time needed to view the f...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

RDz user needs a way to compress PDS when they receive x37 abend trying to save member of PDS.

RDz user has modified a member of a host PDS and while saving member they received x37 abend (Out of space condition). From RDz client (Remote Systems view) they right-click on PDS and select 'Compress' from the context menu but the request fails ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Extend MFS Map Editor

The Map editor should be extended to allow input and output message automatically be added when a new field is inserted
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered