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SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future 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.
over 5 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, ...)
over 7 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.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Menu Manager Connection filters for action

I have a RDz connected to three different mainframes and i need to configure Menu Manager action for each mainframe. The action is different for each mainframe. Currently the RDz support filters only for Data Set Filters. I need actions to be asso...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future 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 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 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
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Quick Fix not available in the RDz Editor for COBOL.

We try to use Quick Fix function to resolve warnings and errors in the editor but it's not available.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing

Artificial intelligence application for DevOps entire software development evaluation ,software testing etc provide patent right and royalty reward (provide 50% of profit only in my name) only in my name and donot include any external elements in ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

provide patched Eclipse source bundles

IDz 14 is based on Eclipse 4.4.2, but IBM patched the Eclipse platform bundles, therefore the official Eclipse source bundles do not match the Eclipse binary bundles used by IDz 14.This RFE is to ask IBM to provide the source bundles corresponding...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration