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z/OS Application Development

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Preprocessor should always run for included COBOL copybooks

In our property groups we have self-written COBOL preprocessors defined. If there are preprocessor statements in included copybooks they will not get resolved and therefore editor shows errors in the code. This is not the expected behaviour. If on...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

No spaces after brackets by IDz COBOL formatter

Currtently the formatter (CTRL+Shift+F) inserts a blank after each opening bracket "(" oder before each closing bracket ")". This is annoying and should be at configurable.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching

Having the possibility to specify different property groups for test target source and zUnit test case without manually switching.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Menu manager migration

IDz should support a smooth migration of menu manager to higher IDz version.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

PL/I parser support for MACROs

PL/I parser issues warnings in the editor if there are MACROs within the INCLUDEs
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Create a specific file for parser error in Software Analyzer

Currently in Software Analyzer, when you analyze an entire workspace made of several programs, all the cobol parser errors are retrieved in the .log in the workspace without any possibility to oriented those result in a specific file.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Open Declaration (F3) für Db2 objects

After selecting a Db2-object and choosing "Open Declaration" from the context menu or hitting F3, the edit location should move to the declaration of the Db2-object in the Cobol-source. (Analogous to F3 when positioned on a variable)
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration