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z/OS Application Development

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RDz: Need multiple HCE emulators

Bank developers need to open an emulator to execute a transaction in the production CICS region, and then open a second emulator to execute the same transaction in the test region. They wish to view and compare the screens side-by-side. How do we ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: create a PDS filter for PDS members and then search based on the PDS filter

User wants to create a PDS member filter that displays only those members supported by the filter. He does not want to use the Locate cmd. Also, the user wants to search the PDS restricting the search only to the contents of the PDS filter. He doe...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Error handling from CARMA

RFE submitted at request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While compiling or linking a load module using the CARMA interface, RDz is not receiving the errors properly from TSO. The user is forced to look into JES for error messages. Rather we should...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz: CARMA dataset movement

RFE submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) We would like to drag/drop source modules from CARMA to z/OS Projects. In summary, CARMA should behave similar to RSE.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Filter settings

As in MVS it should be possible to set and use generic filter in selections panels in RDz mapping onto MVS datasets.I.e. specification and selection like UD69.P1210.JCL(GK*) should be accepted and performed.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Increase accuracy of "Identify unreachable code"

From the above PMR, there are too many restriction and limitation of this feature currently and make it hardly to report an accurate result. The feature then become unreliable and not able to consume.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

allowing replacement across files

Currently there is a 'search' facility that looks for text in files in a folder but there appears no 'replace' feature that would allow replacing text across many files.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Remote text search in JES joblog

RDz is now lacking the capability of doing remote text search in JES joblog. It required users to open the joblog first. But that doesn't work if users want to do a text search on a large joblog (with million's of line)
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz should support TSO prefixes

RDz Developer for System z should support the existence of TSO prefixes. The client (through RSE) should be able to detect the usage of a TSO prefix, determine what the prefix is, or give the option for the user to enter it into the client, and th...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz to support JES joblog comparison

Support JES joblog comparsion. Users can highlight 2 joblog and can select "Compare wtih Each Other" in context menu. Make it same experience as compare dataset member.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration