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z/OS Application Development

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Generate a job using customized procedures

Similar to the facilities offered by COBOL, it should be possible to generate a job using customized user procedures.COBOL, for example, offers 3 procedures (ELAXFCOC, ELAXFCOP and ELAXFCOT) that can be selected as required.A similar facility shou...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Missing MVS filter for dependencies in offline/online work for PL/I

I created PMR 08875 113 848 and was aksed to create this RFE.The request is:If you want to go offline and you have dependencies (pl/i copybooks), the tool does only support/allow this, if you have a MVS filter for those files. The request is, that...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Ability to define filters at member level

The customer would like to have the ability to define a MVS filter so that he can discriminate at a member level. Now, when he define a filter he ends with the data set and when we expand the list we get all of the members included in that data se...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

My Search Queries Enhancement

Provide the ability to add Saved Search queries to a zOS Sub Project. Currently, all saved RSE Search queries are listed under My Search Queries. User want the ability to add a Saved Search query to zOS Sub Projects similar to the way the add a CO...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Improved RADz mapping capabilities

1. ODO (Occurs Depending On) mapping (i.e. Map ODO objects without requiring the mapping of ODO count)2. Allow user to provide additional logic for MOVE (i.e. only MOVE the data if certain criteria matches)3. One-to-many mapping (i.e. Map COBOL da...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

One-click Save and Submit - for COBOL, PL1, BMS, MFS

From StandardWare and others, during a demo, "can a user right-click while editing a source file, and essential:1. save changes2. run a local syntax check 3. if no errors - submit a job to the system in which the source originated
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Automatical cleansing of not used RSE threadpool with no connection, which generated by maximum.heap.usage.ratio.

RSED can clear the useless threadpool automatically. The cleansing interval is preferable to set by a value in rsed.envvars. Currently the processes, which exceed the value of maximum.heap.usage.ratio, are alive till stop of RSED. So those process...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Moving Fields by CTRL + Cursor-Keys (in BMS Map Editor)

When selecting a field (in Design Mode) we'd like to move it around not only by using the mouse but also by using the cursor keys (CTRL + CursorKey like in Powerpoint). The current approach using the Dot-Key is somewhat exotic and not satisfactory...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Smarter Copy & Paste (in BMS Map Editor)

When having selected a field we'd like to copy and move it by CTRL + left Mouse-Key in one single operation (like in Powerpoint)
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide a utility for conversion STL files to SAM files on PC environment.

Our customer requests a transfer function which converts STL files to SAM files and sends it to the HOST.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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