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z/OS Application Development

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Copy of PDS members who contain characters, which might result in a roundtrip-problem, should not be allowed.

A member of a PDS can be corrupted by copying it into the same PDS via RSE, when it contains x'0D'. In order to avoid this corruption, RSE shouldn't allow me to copy such a member or it should do a binary copy instead.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Client authentication in RDz

RDz should enable SSL with client authentication. Currently only host authentication is supported.In addition, the user credentials have to be taken from a Smartcard interface, using MSCAPI, and then passed to the mainframe.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support for EXEC SQL

Support for EXEC SQL statements so they won't get flagged by real time syntax checker when they are actually ok and so that includes included by EXEC SQL INCLUDE are correctly suported in the real time syntax checker.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered