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z/OS Application Development

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Notification to RDz users when submitting JCL with NOTIFY

In RDz, there is currently no notification send to the user when a JCL using the NOTIFY parameter on the job card is submitted. Alternatively, you can select the job filter, right mouse click, and select the Monitor action. This should launch the ...
over 13 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.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

show who has updated a program when an MVS Subproject is brought online

when someone makes an MVS SubProject go Online - it would be nice (!!!) to know who has made changes - before deciding whether or not to over-write
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz COBOL Real Time Syntax Check should detect mis-positioned source elements

In the following sample the code is in error but the Real Time Syntax Check (RTSC) does not detect the problem. A Local Syntax Check or compile will produce an error about the initialize y starting in section A. RTSC should also report an error. I...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Insert current timestamp using RDzs DB2 Table Editor

With QMF, I can type CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and insert the current timestamp value into a TIMESTAMP column. I can't do that RDzs DB2 table editor
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Display SQL results in a larger window in RDzs Data Perspective

When I execute an SQL within the Data Perspective of RDz, 1) The results are not displayed by default. Instead the execution time is displayed.2) The results window is hidden in a small frame in the lower right corner.It would be nice if a new tab...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Remote Java develop capability on RDz

Remote Edit : Enable JDT features including content assist for the remote Java files Remote Compile / build : Compile & error feedback to developerRemote debugging : Debug java applications remotely
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Allow control of margins and fonts when printing out JES output

When trying to print job output data from SDSF you can bring up the output in RDz. This output is 133 characters wide. When you attempt to print it there is no way to change the margins or shrink the size of the text so that the output can be prin...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Fill up the lines of Cobol programs in LPEX with blank up to column 80 to prevent the deletion of EOL

When editing a Cobol program in the LPEX editor, choose a line where there is no character from before the column 73 up to the column 80 (which means that the EOF (in ASCII mode) is before the column 73). If you now put the cursor after the EOF an...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Create member filter on partitioned datasets

We have huge datasets for copybooks (more than 25.000 copybooks in one dataset). It would be useful to have the ability to set a filter on a pds dataset (po and library), so that only this copybooks will shown, which are in the filter.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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