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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
    about 9 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.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

    Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

    Local preprocessors in IDz: provide a property for the location of the BuildOutput folder

    We are developing sources in IDz in combination with GIT repositories that are cloned in the workspace. When you invoke the preprocessor (for PL/1) in your editor, then the tools automatically created a BuildOutput folder in the top-level our yo...
    over 3 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
    about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    Code review in batch for a pipeline so slow that it can't be used

    I've set up and been configuring AKGCR, Code Review, in batch to be used in our cobol pipeline.On zos we are using idz 14.2.1 and on the client we are using 14.2.1.1When I submit my jcl it takes a couple of minutes to complete, even though it is a...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future 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.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    IDz: Allow IDZ user build variables to be generated from RTC language definition/translator instead of manually via IDz Prefs

    In an IDz user build, DDNAMEs using variables as STEP RCs in a build have to be defined manually in the context of the z/os project.Normally, the STEPS and initBuild are defined as properties of the language definition by navigating to IDz Window/...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

    Option to disable automatic file association.

    Provide an option to disable the automatic file association that is done when opening a file that does not meet any z/OS File Mapping criteria. Since the PMR ID field above doesn't accept the new TS ID format, here it is: TS002715273
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

    Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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