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z/OS Application Development

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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...
over 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.
almost 9 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 .
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

TDAT file are dispyed with wrong hebrew

large program or SEQ file with many data elements, we can map the program to be a TDAT filethis gives us a table identation of the file and show us only some of the file content (accordingto preferences) and so helps with time needed to view the f...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

error messages or reason why - problem I have seen is with endevor

When pulling files from endevor or updating files we get error without any explanation. thought I alreay entered this but can't find it in my list of RFE. If douple, sorry.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

endevor

when I have a module that is in my project folder that is associated to endevor, I would like a way to click and release the association to endevor. This will help clean up problem that can occur that RDz may not be able to recover from. Then I ca...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

File Manager need to be able to add multi file definitions or filters as we can in Remote systems

When building a filter for File Manager we would like to be able to enter in multi filter strings under a single description. We do this in Remote Systems. Make it to work the same way. Consistency is very helpful
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RDz to provide usage metrics and dashboarding

Enhance RDz to provide metrics and dashboarding regarding usage on views, perspectives, and custom features such as plug-ins.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste a file from MVS with LRECL 50 results of a local file on with LRECL 20 without date/hour specified

Copy/Paste a file from MVS with LRECL 50 results of a local file on with LRECL 20 without date/hour specified.The caracteristics of the copied files on the workstation should be equivalent to the initial file .
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Conditional Extraction of the Data from the tables

The conditional extraction of the data from the tables will help the developer to test their functionality with necessary data.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration