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z/OS Application Development

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Add ability to convert subfields in SDF to IDz BMS maps

Customer is currently working on conversion of maps from SDF to IDz BMS maps editor.Using IDz BMS Map Editor, subfields do not import over to IDz. IDz does not currently support subfields.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Limit COBOL content assist proposals by user defined type

IDz code assistant proposal includes all declared literals while some of them may not be applicable in the context depending on their type.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz - Import Software Analyzer results created during zOS batch run

Would like the ability to Import into the RDz client an xml file containing Software Analyzer results created during a zOS batch run.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Support for REXX development

Add full support for the REXX language in RDz including content assist, source formatting, and syntax checking.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Emulator requests color

When in the host emulator we need to have the ability to be able to change colors was we can in windows.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future 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

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

More general error message in case of lock at opening

We often have lock problems when opening programs. Under TSO, the user knows that this is an RDz server by typing F1 after his attempt to open : we don't even have this information under RDz. We have this type of message : « CRRZI0643W The file &l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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