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z/OS Application Development

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Support Pack On dataset in IDz

Need support of "Pack On" dataset in RDz/IDz.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Enhancement to allow Control-flow to work for when there is no space between subscript

We have a lot of code in Production where there is no space after the comma in statements using subscripts. The code is in copybooks as well as programs, Cobol compiled gives a warning but successfully creates the load module. However Program Cont...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

add an option in zUnit test case to reinitialize the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION before running each test entry

There is a zUnit limitation documented in IDz 14.1: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_14.1.0/com.ibm.etools.rdz.zunit.doc/topics/r_limitations.html "zUnit does not initialize data item of WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. When running zUni...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support for Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS

Currently RDz does not support Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS. This is a major inhibitor to the adoption of RDz in z/OS host application development, since host data sets on EAV cannot be accessed via RDz.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Search Text in File - need a "not case sensitive" checkbox

If we search after some text in the file using Ctrl+Alt+F (Search Text in File) we usually don't get all results because it is case sensitive. Like other possibilities for search we need this as an option (checkox). Other than that this search is ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Overwrite option in SAVE AS functionality

In menu " File > Save As ... ", we just want the possibility to overwrite an existing program in a PDS like in any IDE, maybe with a contextual check box.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

CARMA element history should show the source PDS library

CARMA element history not showing the source PDS library from where the element was moved to Endevor using CARMA. However in 3270 Endevor shows the PDS name form element moved for each version whne give line command M in front of element or partic...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Possibilty to hide BADHEX messages in Audit logs

The possibility to hide the numerous BADHEX messages in audit.log
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

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