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z/OS Application Development

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Menu Manager - results options open report.

When using menu manager there is a dialog window, we would like the results of this dialog window to be open in view like the spool of a job is open. Other option would be to have Menu manager have a new exit routine that allows me to specif a fil...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

enhance conent assist in RD/z

I have enclosed three files showing what I mean: SyntaxIndexRDZa - showing Ctrl+space after typing "index" in the editor - not a Whole lot of help for the syntax for index. SyntaxIndexRDZb - showing Ctrl+space after typing "index(" in the editor -...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

Use EQAD3CXT rather than CEEUOPT in RDz Property Group Build Process

When using RDz Property Group to remotely build a DB2 application which will be executed with interactive debugging, the process generates CEEUOPT to be linked into the DB2 application (at run time the CEEUOPT is the vehicle to pass the LE Run Tim...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Scan JCL residing on the Test LPAR against the Prod LPAR

Production JCL is being modified on the Test LPAR. The need is to scan the JCL for errors which requires networking a copy of the JCL to the Production LPAR, scanning the JCL, and send the syntax checks to the user. We have datasets existing in Pr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz zUnit - more easily to jump to the fail test case

It would be more user friendly for adding hyper link in zUnit test result such that it can jump to the corresponding test case in the program quickly.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz database explorer to suuport HEX value display and edit

We have some DB2 table column which is defined CHAR but will store some non-displayable hex value. Current RDz Database Explorer not able to handle it for both display and editing.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Run Software Analyzer against entire remote project

We have this functionality available when executing against a local copy of a remote project. Since all files reside on the mainframe it is more practical to have this functionality available for a remote project where I can select one, multiple, ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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