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z/OS Application Development

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Improve performance of "Show in Table" view

When using "Show in Table" view to display z/OS artifacts (i.e. PDS members, dataset filters, job filters, etc), the rendering of data within SWT widgets performs sluggishly. The performance issue can also be noticed when scrolling between several...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support XDC in RDz JES output

It is a very commonly use features in SDSF panel.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RDz support Microsoft CryptoAPI (MSCAPI) in Host Emulator

RDz Host Emulator did not support Microsoft CryptoAPI (MSCAPI) in the security setup which we are using in PCOMM. This block our adoption as we cannot achieve Host Emulator security via the CWD certificate store.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Unreachable Code should also highlight SQL statement

The "indentify unreachable code" cannot highlight SQL code. even whole section is unreachable, but the EXEC SQL codes are not highlighted and this is a bit misleading.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

When I build a unit shell I need to have it associated with a profile

When opening a unix shell it should open using the level we have highlighted and should pick up the profile that is defined for that user when I am opening it on that user.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Optimization of RDz Outline functionality.

In RDz the Outline View is used to get an overview of the code and its strucure and eases the navigating by click and jump functionality. This is appreciated.But in the Outline View all brancing is presented by the label/keyword 'DO'This menas tha...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Support detached of Editor view

The editor view should support "detached" similar to other views in RDz. This give developer more flexibility.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Allow customize context menu for offline dataset

The context menu when right click on a offline dataset is not able to change now. We have write script in menu manager to restore offline dataset, but no means to add it in the context menu. The menu manager should be enhanced to support offline d...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Provide action_id for open, view, browse copybooks or includes in LPEX, PLI- and Cobol-Editors

System: Rational Developer for System z Rational Developer for System z is used at BMW to develop COBOL and PLI programs. We need action_ids for Open, View copybooks or includes to hide them in LPEX, Cobol and PLI editors. Because in our environme...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz default action for double click

The default double click action on RDz is to EDIT an element. This action should be configurable such that users can choose to browse element (instead of EDIT) by default.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered