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z/OS Application Development

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outline view alphabetic ordering of procedures in pl1

When using outline view on a Cobol program you have the option to sort alphabetically. This option is NOT available in PL1. If you have a PL1 program with many procedures and functions it can be very hard to find a specific procedure in the outlin...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

BMS Array Editor to edit a multidimensional array.

When RDz reads a BMS file that contains a multidimensional array, RDz does not allow to edit the array as we get an error message indicating that "the total width exceeds the defined table width". In the detected case we have that the customer def...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Ease the creation of new IMS applications in RDz

RBC is developing new as well as maintaining existing IMS COBOL applications. We would like to see the ability in RDz to generate skeleton IMS Cobol apps to ease IMS application development experience.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

RDz does not support creation of dataset filter with double asterisk

RDz does not support creation of dataset filter with double asterisk '**'. If the user enters data set name filter such as XHU5002.**.HUNK*.*, RDz issue this message "Invalid data set name pattern".The new requirement is for RDz support the use of...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Enable DB2-on-z/OS feature(s) that are disabled on DB2-on-Windows to support 'offline' development.

We are attempting to migrate our (DB2 COBOL stored procedure) development efforts off of the mainframe to a windows platform using Rational Developer for System Z (v7.6) and DB2 Express (for Windows). After setting up our development environment w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

In my JCL allow us to expand proc and control cards just as you do with copy books in programs

When editing a JCL we need to be able to expand or go directly to the Proc or control card quickly.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Allow us to be able to access IAM file format through RDz

We need to have access to IAM file format through RDz.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Replace the TPFSHARE environment variable with a RDz-version dependent equivalent

The TPFSHARE environment variable that points to the local installation directory is used by a number of components. If multiple RDz versions are installed on the same computer, this mechanism obviously cannot work correctly because only TPFSHARE ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

RDz 7.6 CARMA/Endevor does not provide Move Function

RDz 7.6 CARMA/Endevor does not provide the ability to Move (Promote) an element that is not part of a Package. Reference: PMR #49717,487,000
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Add indicator/label to perform hierarchy view within RDz if paragraph is only performed due to conditional processing.

The perform hierarchy view is able to show all of the paragraphs for a cobol program that could be executed and outline those but would like to have an icon difference represented in the view if that perform is only entered based on condition logi...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered