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z/OS Application Development

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Support PLI compiler exit IBMUEXIT for IDz v14.1

We use the PLI compiler exit under zOS to increase or decrease the severity of certain compiler errors. IDz does not provide this capability. What happens then, code that compiles successfully on the mainframe fails under ZUNIT due to ZUNITs synta...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Report all values of data items that are different from expected values in Result View of zUnit

When the execution result of zUnit becomes Fail, please provide the function for the developer to confirm all the values of data items that are different from the expected value as a Result View or another format report.Currently, if 10 data items...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Multiple Selection of REDEFINES Layout in Test Case Editor of zUnit

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide the ability to select different layouts defined in REDEFINES for each test entry and record.When performing PoC with V14.1.4, we could not select only one REDEFINES layout for all test entries and r...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Quick Fix should suggest to create a section (and not only a paragpraph) on unknown perform

When typing perform with an unknown paragraph, the quick fix function suggests to create a paragraph but not to create a section. The feature should be enhanced to also suggest creating a section.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

zUnit: Option to view Test cases in browse mode only

Our team needs the ability to review test cases and have the it protected against changes
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

zUnit saves Test Case with a different name rather than Overwrite them

Currently when re-generating a Test Case the member name is reused.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

DBB User build - provide an API to trigger it through custom code

We don't like DBB user's build wizard and we have submitted several enhancements to make it better. We think that ultimately, having an option to control the user build triggering by ourselves would give us more freedom to implement rules for the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

DBB User build - dependencies should be available whether people have opened the editor or not before

When the developer performs a user build, it is important to check "discover the dependencies to load", to make sure that all the needed source files are loaded on the mainframe. DBB user build is often used when a developer makes changes to a pro...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Software Analyzer -CAM-API: comment lines

Trying to implement COBOL-rules using the CAM-API I missed the possibility to handle comment lines by having a method like visit(CommentStmt n) with the opportunity to get the contents of a comment line.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

"Show Expanded Source" should also cater for "REPLACE" statement

The new feature "show expanded source" in RDz 9.1.1 client, should also cater for the COPY REPLACING statement in the program source, otherwise it will cause parse error after expanded the copybook, and lot of feature will then be disabled, e.g. p...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

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