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z/OS Application Development

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Make LPEX Rectangle Edit behave like the COBOL Editor

The COBOL Editor's Rectangle (Block) editing works as you'd expect - where, when you copy a block, you can paste it anywhere in your source and column you started the paste from is honored (i.e. if you paste starting at column 20 - all of the left...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Endevor - build package

When building a package, give us the option to select the options first before selecting the modules. Retain the options for all selected modules. We can do this today using TSO. This includes selecting the CCID and description. This may work this...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Menu Manager

When we build a menu manager we need to be able to have menu manager open the output into an editor, which may or may not be able to update.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Submit multiple jobs at once from RSE

A common request from entry-level RDz users is to be able to select 2 or more JCL files in RSE and submit them with one click. This something that can be done from ISPF (3.4) - so it's really a deficiency.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz should expand copybooks from the Outline view

RDz does not allow for expanding copybooks from the outline view.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA to open program copy member without retrieve

When double click (open for browse) a COBOL program in CARMA repository view, we cannot use the "Open Copy member" function in copybook. We need to retrieve it to z/OS project first. We would like to have an enhancement that it can open copy membe...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

File Manger Template - SEQUENCE column

When selecting fields for HOLD, FM for ex. will enter "H" in HOLD column and "1" in SEQUENCE. If you select another field to HOLD it will enter "H" in HOLD column and "2" in SEQUENCE and so on. When you are selecting fields for SEQUENCE only, the ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Option to view or browse member in the Find Member dialog result list

When doing a search on members using the Find member context menu item on Remote Systems, we get a list of matching members. In this dialog there is an Open button which "Edits" the hilited member. It would be useful if we could view or browse it.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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When we want to move a member from a bilblioth?que to the other one, it is necessary to have displayed the filter before, because pass on does not deploy him automatically
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Provide means of deleteing file-names from Retrieve Datasets list

Users from several of my RDz training classes want to be able to delete datasets names, from the Retrieved Datasets filter, without deleting the file
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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