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z/OS Application Development

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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...
about 13 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 ...
almost 13 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 ...
about 13 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.
about 13 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...
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