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z/OS Application Development

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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
over 13 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...
over 13 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
almost 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...
over 14 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.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor support for inline copybook expansion

Currently in the LPEX Editor, if a COBOL program has COPY statements you can either do a Browse Copy Member or Open Copy Member to view the contents of the copybook. This is opened in a another view / window. It would provide better context if inl...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to limit creation of large MVS filters

In RDz 9.5 and earlier version, it is possible to create on the RDz client a MVS filter that will return more than 200 000 elements. Such filters have an impact on the performance of the client and server.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

General export facility to data presented in 'table views' in RDz

We would like to have general possibility to export data, when they are presented in 'Table views' in RDz. In some of RDz 's views export facilities are at hand and we would like to have this facility broadened to all table views RDz .
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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