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z/OS Application Development

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RDz support for DB2 11

DB2 11 for z/OS support with current supported versions of RDz. There is currently no formal documented RDz support for DB2 11 for z/OS even though the GA was 4 months ago. Additionally, the DB2 11 support for the Data Studio elements was created ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected so that you can do repeated FIND or REPLACE on the selected text without having to reselect the text each time.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Support searching with embedded wildcard

Search filter * within the text does not work. Eg. NH.DEV*.SOURCE gives 0 results. However, the pattern works fine when creating a new Filter on MVS FILES. Can the search facility be enhanced to accept embedded wildcards?
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

job success/ failure notification popup in RDz JES

There is no job success/ failure notification popup in RDz JES. Can IBM provide one?
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Convert tab to x'05' when copying data from notepad to LPEX editor

When we copy some statements in word document or notepad to the LPEX editor which contains some "tab", it will become the x'05' characters once saving it to host. It will lead to syntax error and hard to identify the problem. Could LPEX editor be ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide APPEND function for Compare

When executing a compare of code in the Cobol Source Compare only offers to move/replace the blocks of code affected. An option should be offered to APPEND one change after another, which facilitates the merging of two versions of the same program
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Metacobol - Provide a way for Identify Preprocessor Statements function to ignore additional cosmetic and syntactically equiv

Provide a way for Identify Preprocessor Statements function to ignore additional cosmetic and syntactically equivalent differences
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

The LPEX opens some members in packed format

Some members of PDS datasets (JCL, LOAD, PARAM) were edited using the option PACK ON under MVS.. The LPEX opens these members in packed format, not readable. We cannot issue the command PACK OFF under RDz
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Managing preprocessor variables in PLI

Possibilitiy to manage different sets of preprocessor variables regarding the PLI editor. Might also be valid for other langauges using preprocessor facilities.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz support open copybook inside Assembler program

Support open copybook member in context menu in Assembler program, same as Cobol.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

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