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z/OS Application Development

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Provide Menu Manager functionality from a PDS

Allow Menu Manager actions to be invoked from a PDS (dataset) name in RSE. Currently Menu Manager actions require users to open a PDS and select a member
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support binary search of XPATHs greater than 256-bytes in COBOL converters

If there are more than 255 mappings (I did not count but the code is splitting it on 255) then the generated code does not compile. If one uses less fields then the code that is generated looks different. I am reluctant to try and fix the generate...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Need "positional mapping" capability for z/OS File System work

Shops with generic libraries often cannot z/OS File System map member names to workstation file extensions with only a wildcard (*)
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz to create a new paragraph when a new perform is coded.

RDz to add paragraph in COBOL program when a new PERFORM statement is coded with a paragraph name that is not already defined.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Variable segment size in PLI API for WebServices in IMS

The PLI API IRZPWSIO currently maximizes the use of each IMS message segment. This is not optimal for all system configurations, then it makes sense to allow configuration of how much data per segment the API will generate. Therefore the @irz_segm...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz - COPY / PASTE of Mainframe LOAD Modules

Please refer to documentation in PMR 48554,057,649 for additional details and Customer Contact (TD Bank Group). I have recreated your trouble on my machine using RD/z 8.0.1 then again on 7.6.2.1. Using the RSE remote system explorer, I did this 1)...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Allow Menu Manager action to be invoked from the RSE for all dataset types

Currently a Menu Manager action can be invoked from the RSE only for PS files or PO members. It should be possible to invoke a Menu Manager action for all dataset types, in particular, but not only, VSAM and PO.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RPP : Avoir une vue (non ?ditable) des ?l?ments du serveur

Avoir une vue (non ?ditable) des ?l?ments du serveur(Rational Programming Patterns for System z)
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Optimize COBOL UNICODE XML converters for host SBCS EBCDIC CCSIDs supported by XML PARSE

The basic idea is to eliminate several UNICODE conversions by working with XML in SBCS EBCDIC when possible
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

indexed by ... in autocomplete

I'm using RDz 7.6.1 / lpex-ispf. When a table is defined with an indexed by statement. The index isn't avaiable in the autocompletion. referring to RDz forums http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=346550&tstart=0
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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