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z/OS Application Development

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Developer for Z control-flow to number or order the called sub-routines within the calling routine

When viewing a program control flow diagram it would be great to see the sequence that the subroutines are called within a calling routine. This would help provide a much deeper understanding of the actual program logic. Also some indicator or cou...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Crosshair Cursor in Host Connection Emulator

Outside of RDz the ISPF interface we used had cross hairs on the cursor. In RDz the Host Connection Emulator does not have this functionality. I have had many requests for this to be added, so I am submitting an RFE
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Provide open include / copybook on preprocessed files

For customers with heavy usage of macros, IDZ provides the option to use the preprocessor integration feature to enable the editor tooling. When a customer processes the file and also resolves the includes / copybooks, the developer misses the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 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.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future 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...
almost 8 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.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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