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z/OS Application Development

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Dynamic property group

A PDS Library can have COBOL/Assembler/BMS/PLI, with the current nature, you need to map the property manually for each member. If property groups can be dynamically established before reading the programs, it will reduce the manual setup.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Allow Variable substitution on Bind parameters for DB2 applications

When configuring the Group Properties for compilation of COBOL programas with DB2 access, we need to configure the Bind Parameters that are hardcoded into properties. This is annoying to the users as he has to manually change the Bind parameters. ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Use <HLQ> in another field than that provided by default in property groups

We can't use the <HLQ> parameter in other fields that provided by default in property groups
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Replace Term

With RDz there are 2 options to replace term. If you have a fix right border the replace trucates the term - this is not what the developer wants. If you remove the right border, the replace works, but the comment is moved. This is also not what t...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Generate JCL based on the subsystem version

Similar to the capability to specify which CICS Transaction Server version is used for syntax checking, use this information to generate the appropriate steplib, etc. for the compilation, etc.This capability should not be restricted to the CICS Tr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Extend Menu Manager to all any selected properties for the associated entry to be passed as variable

Currently only a limited number of predefined variables (such as $fullname) can be specified as parameter.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

GUI tooling to specify and generate compensational actions for IMS

Banco Itau is developing new IMS callout application, which needs to handle failure scenarios. We would like to see the ability in RDz to provide a visual compensation tooling to ease IMS callout application development experience.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

GUI tooling to visually compose and generate IMS flow applications

Banco Itau is developing new IMS flow application, which involves synchronous program switch to IMS applications and synchronous callout to external applications. We would like to see the ability in RDz to provide a visual composition tooling to e...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ / LPEX PL1 hi-light if/do/end etc.

When developing PL1 programs on z/os using the ispf editor, we have a hi-ligth facility available.Among the features is the ability to have the editor coloring matching do-end groups.I.e. in this example: if a = 0 then do; if b = 0 then do; if c =...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide a possible limitation for display of sequential datasets

When a User opens a large sequential dataset in Remote Systems view (RDz) it can be that RDz hangs and has to be shut down or even killed. A possible solution could be that (like for JES output) RDz would provide the option to set some display lim...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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