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z/OS Application Development

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Removing the TCP traffic during a local syntax check on a remote resource

When doing a local syntax check on a remote resource, there should be no execution time difference between working in an online or an offline mode.Currently, when working online, the TCP traffic is very high and this leads to an excessive network ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Transferring Bookmarks from one RDz user to Other RDz user

During our code review process, we would like to add comments as Bookmarks and would like to transfer those bookmarks to another RDz user to fix the code review comments.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

JAVA class CobolEditor should provide public method setPartName(String)

Like other editors i.e. SystemzLpex the CobolEditor class should provide a public method setPartName(String) to set the name of the EditorPart.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Allow ShowJCL (SJ) to work with batch jobs not submitted by me

Currently ShowJCL (SJ) only works on jobs that I have submitted. I am responsible. And in fact, currently when you try an SJ over someone else's Job (which you are displaying using a Filter) nothing happens (No-op). :-(
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Endevor Enhansments - adding members

When adding a member to endever two things needs to be fixed:. First: If I am adding a member that already exist. I highlight the member and do a custom add. the properties need to be retrieved from the member that I highlighted and not retained f...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Provide a preference for showing TSO libraries by "Date Modified" descending

ISPF developers frequently (at least 50% of the time) view the members in their libraries by "Date Last Modified" - almost always sorted descending, so that the most recently modified members appear at the top of the list. This (sort by date last ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Endevor Enhansement - be able to view compiled listing and output.

This is two part:First:: when endevor indicates that a Batch Job has been submitted, give a hot key to that JOB in the queue as you do in other submits.Second: Endevor retains all compiled programs, at least the latest. It is critical that we are ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

View/edit data in sequential/vsam files

Allow RDz client to view and edit data stored in sequential and VSAM files on mainframe.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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...
about 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...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration