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z/OS Application Development

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Support refresh in SQL Outline view in RDz v9

in RDZ v9 integrated with Datastudio 4.1, it allows users to extract SQL from a cobol program into SQL outline view, and then run it separately. However, it don't have a way to refresh the view, that means when we remove the Cobol program from pro...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz remote preprocessor - cannot view declaration for variables within the mouse over code for generated statements.

Would be nice to be able to look at (mouse over) the declarations for variables within the mouse over area of the flagged preprocessor statements. ie. as we can for variables within the input source itself. We can already see declarations for copy...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz Remote Preprocessor not flagging some lines generated by Netron CAP Processor

We have configured the RDz remote preprocessor to execute a Netron COBOL preprocessor on the host...via REXX. The process seems to work OK for most Netron source but for some cases, many of the lines are incorrectly identified as preprocessor stat...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz support for CICS EXEC CPSM command

RDz does not support EXEC CPSM commands. If we use RDz to edit COBOL programs containing CPSM commands, they are flagged as errors and the parser prevents some advanced functions like "Program Flow" from working.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add feature to PLI and COBOL Custom Rules API to get text associated with a node

Add to the COBOL or PLI custom rule API a way to check for the existence of a statements or text and then if it exists, list it as a string or block.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

copy query result into SQL script

in RDz, Data perspective, developer writes a SQL script cntaining for example a WHERE clause like WHERE aField = 'abc' and wants to copy 'abc' from the result of a query run previously. This result appears in the window SQL Result where two button...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Tooltip for variables in content-assist for PLI

In Java the according Java-Doc for variables is displayed when using the content-assist. It would be helpful to show the documentation/comment for a variable/contents of a structure when using the Content assist for PLI/Cobol-sources in RDz (or IDz).
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Move default OPEN option to the z/OS File System Mapping view level

I would like to see the setting of the default option when opening a member in a PDS to ?Browse?, ?View? or ?edit? moved from the Preferences menu and (perhaps) placed on the z/OS File System Mapping. As a developer, I would like better control ov...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly within RDz UI

Customer is requesting the possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly from RDz UI so that they do not need to use the IBM z/OS Connect EE API editor which requires a batch job submission.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Batch Software Analyzer for PL/I always gives 0 results where as RDz software analyzer gives results on the same

Hi,We are in the process of implementing Batch software analyzer for COBOL and PL/I developers when they want to check the health checks of their code.We got the RDz in host upgraded to V9.5.0 and tried running the batch software analyzer on the s...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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