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z/OS Application Development

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It should be possible to explicitly specify the load module name

Currently it is only possible to select the load module name (incorrectly described as entry point name) from one of the members of a (z/OS Projects) subproject. It should be possible to explicitly enter a load module name from the subproject cont...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

CARMA/Endevor Sign-In function does not exist

CARMA/Endevor Sign-In function does not exist within RDz 7.6. Reference: PMR #65168,487,000
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDZ Keyboard Short cut to Local Syntax check

RDZ : In our shop "local syntax check" is a requently used function.There is no keyboard shortcut to this function. Can you please add one ? There is an icon invoking "remote syntax check".Please add a icon to invoke Local Syntax Check as well.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

MFS editor should support graphics attribute

MFS Editor does not yet support the Graphics attribute. However, Japanese client's code contains graphics attribute in its MFS definition and once it is edited using RD/z MFS editor, the attribute dissapeared.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Set auxiliary alignment hairlines (in BMS Map Editor)

In addition to or independent of the Toggle Gridlines icon in Design Mode (off the BMS Map Editor) it would be useful if one could set some horizontal or vertical auxiliary hairlines for better aligning fields. (Like in MS Powerpoint for example)
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

LPEX incremental search

In rdz: preferences /LPEX editor/find text , check the "incremental find dialog". Then go to the editor and open any source, and do a find using ctrl+f.As expected the editor searches on-the-fly as you enter your search argument. As a programmer a...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Provide error message when compile parms exceed 100 characters

Can we have a pop-up message in the Property Group UI or at 'JCl Generate' time if the COBOL parameters exceed 100 characters. The message could indicate other options to use for supplying COBOL parms...eg CBL card at front of COBOL source
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Sicky Notes for SFF Flows

As a "Nice to Have", it would be very nice to be able to attach some type of documentation to the artifacts generated.Even a simple text file that we could promote to the mainframe. This would help us not lose our lessons learned as we hand off ou...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Option in COBOL and JCL LPex editors to automatically uppercase source code

Add option to RDz COBOL LPex editor automatically uppercase COBOL source code. This feature is incorporated in RDi. The option will automatically uppercase any source code that's entered that is not in enclosed in quotes.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

Generate JCL Enhancement

Provide 2 additional buttons on the Generated Compile JCL notification pop up. One button will Submit the generated JCL. The other button will Edit the generated JCL.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

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