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z/OS Application Development

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IDz editor pane to display the current Cobol Section Header name

It is suggested that the Section Header Name should always be displayed on the top of the IDz editor pane until the next section begins. It is somewhat similar to the freeze top pane on spreadsheets.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Code Analyzer Reporting Enhancements

We are trying to use the Code Analyzer to scan our programs for our Standards, but currently no reporting is done for our management to validate. Reports are local to the developer running them. We would like the tool to provide reporting to show ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Tags member of PDS by IDZ

IDz "tags" every members with the user of STC (RSEDx) so the dates of last use are not correct as all members of the PDS have the same date, with the same user IDZ must use ISPF modules/calls rather than reading the directory block info directly
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Compare datasets that are true TSO data files (not source files)

Currently developers using RDz 8.0.3 can download source files that have any EBCDIC character and compare the source files. But they cannot compare EBCDIC data sets that contain packed and binary values. Even though the Compare option is enabled w...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Push to Client of Local property groups

The Push to client feature gives the opportunity to distribute the standard property groups to the developer's workspace. The local property groups are ignored.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism.

Rational Developer for System z v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism. The current extension point preprocessors are designed to be used only for describing text transformatio...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Generate JCL support for Non-ILE Assembler Debug/CC

Support to generate JCL for non-ILE assembler programs. Currently IDz has options to use with ILE Assembler , and are missing support for non-ILE Assembler programs. The missing part is minimal just need to add a new proc and configure it in IDz.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Plugins needed to generate deployable Enterprise Service Tools artifacts

We are using the Enterprise Service Tools perspective from within IDz. We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system, preferably L...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Find Unreachable Variables using RDz

Enhance RDz to find dead or unreachable variables in a COBOL or PL/I file. Usually when I get asked this question, I reply with the ?identify unreachable code' option available in COBOL and hopefully soon in PL/I, but that doesn't get very far. Wh...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz Content Assist for SQL EXEC statements does not provide correct information.

The RDz Content Assit for DB2 is working fine for an EXEC SQL SELECT and in some cases( like EXEC SQL DECLARE or EXEC SQL INSERT) the Content Assist for DB2 does not work properly.. The RDz Content Assist for DB2 should not be reserved to simple S...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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