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z/OS Application Development

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Canceling syntax check or local build during the process

Pressing the Cancel button on the Progress Information window has no affect after a local or remote syntax check or during a local build. When performing a local syntax check of a COBOL program with many copybooks which contains an error RDz may t...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Change behaviour for naming the IMS SGW converters

RDz 8.0 Beta 3c has the following (undesired) behaviour for naming a generated converter: If in ServiceSpecification.xml the DriverSpec/@fileNamePrefix has the value OX0810 the following names will be used to generate the converter files:OX0810D.p...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Rdz: Refactor for PL1

In rdz when coding cobol you have the "refactor" menu option when right clicking the source in the editor (lpex). In PL1 the option (or rather the menu items) has been disabled. We need the "rename" part of refactor available for PL1 programmers a...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Need "dump" memory display in RD/z

A previous RFE was submitted for this functionality and rejected with NO THOUGHT really give to what this customer was requesting. The request was for a "dump" format memory display (this would be as ONE VIEW and not two separate renderings as the...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 14 Delivered

RDz character string search takes too much time. performance should be enhanced to get closer to ISPF search.

RDz character string search takes too much time. performance should be enhanced to get closer to ISPF search. To get an idea, searching a text only present in the last source in a z/OS dataset with 10000 cobol sources, takes 48 sec with ISPF 3.14 ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Mismatch between COBOL realtime syntax check and COBOL z/OS compiler with missplaced END-IF statement

We are using RDz 7.6.2.1 and we detected a mismatch between COBOL realtime syntax check and COBOL z/OS compiler. If the END-IF statement is not placed on the correct column the syntax check doen't notice it, but the z/OS compiler gets an error. We...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

SDFII REPEAT structure, with a list of fields repeated n times vertically on the screen to be recognised correctly by RDz

This customer develops 3270 maps with SDFII. The customer generates BMS that are imported into RDz. When the BMS comes from a REPEAT structure where many fields that are repeated vertically on, RDz interprets wrongly. We should have RDz interpreti...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

RDZ Debug. Manage compiled language event breakpoints

Consider this code: call xx(); xx: proc; dcl i fixed bin(31); do i = 1 to 100; put skip data(i); end;end xx; If you run this in the debugger and on the call xx(); statement you press "step over", you will never the less enter the xx procedure, and...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Rdz - perform hierarchy for pl1

In rdz when coding cobol you have the "perform hierarchy" view available. This is also very much needed in PL1
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Incorrect Resource Name - Results Screen has Incorrect Data

When Adding an Element through the CARMA/Endevor interface, the Element successfully gets added in Endevor, but a Results window is returned at the RDZ 7.6.1 Client showing a name that was not acted upon. Reference: PMR 49611,487,000
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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