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Tape information (similar to VI on ISPF) on RDz

VI - option which retries the information of the file went to tape is NOT available in RDz
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add scoll bars to IDz Program Control editor windows

With Program Control Flow editor, there are no scroll bars on the right or bottom of the view. These would allow one to at least be able to scroll when the sizing and focus don't work.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support for input field in Menu Manager dialog for password type fieles

Customer needs to enter a password in the Menu manager dialog to be passed to REXX program, and need this field hidden ( password Type input field) on the screen.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

JMR function is not available in RDz

JMR function which will display all the previous runs(days,months, years) of production jobs is not available in RDz
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

IDz program control editor next/last should be in program order

When using IDz Program Control editor, the Previous/Next buttons should flow through the diagram programmatically.Currently, they move alphabetically/numerically.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Product usage reporting (IDZ, z/OS explorer, ..)

We would like to be able to track who is using what product (IDZ, z/OS Explorer, Data studio, CICS explorer, MQ explorer , ....).At least, we would like to know that someone is using an IDZ licence (or RDZ, ...)
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Define a new HATS variable which will contain the highlighted text

Opening a file in an Editor, we would want to get the value of the highlighted text. For example, in the JCL editor, highlight one data set name, then with a right click this would pull in that data set name to an action.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Expand all option in z/OS-Projects / MVS-Subprojects

We would like to have a context menu option to expand all items below the selected item in the z/OS Projects View. E.g. Right-click on a z/OS Project, MVS Subproject or a Library shall expand all sub-items
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Access to Edit Macros from Menu Manager

Many companies have created a large amount of utilities and macros in ISPF over the years. One of the obstacles implementing RDz is for those Edit Macros which are not covered by RDz functionality. A simple solution to cover some of these would be...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration