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RDz RSE view has slow response with folders locate on network drive

RDz has slow response to open folders locate on network drive. The performance need be improved.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

ScrollBar in Show Dependencies

windows version: win7RDZ version: 8.5In Enterprise Development perspective, the Show Dependencies result windows does not have a vertical scrollbar. This is not good if there are a lot of dependent files to display.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

HLL/WB Windows8 Support

HLL/WB to support Windows8. Developer's workstations are moving to Winodws8, and HLL/WB should support the new platform in a timely fashion.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

Different Save As behavior between LPEX and COBOL editor when viewing members

When viewing a COBOL member in the LPEX editor, it is possible to save the changes locally or on the host on the "Save as" dialog. When viewing it with the COBOL editor, the "Save as" dialog only allow local save.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

Editor enhancement : better handling of column 72

Copy these 2 lines to the lpex editor: dcl y fixed bin(31); /* TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST */ Place the cursor after ?;? in the first line.Press delete. It preserves the 27 blanks giving us: dcl y fixed bin(31); /* TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Improve performance when opening filters with number of datasets

Following PMR# 13142,031,724 and APAR PM83984, further performance improvement when opening large filters on the Remote Systems explorer view could be obtained by using Catalog Search Interface (CSI) instead of the current implementation. CGI is a...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

File-look-up field is misleading

In RDz 8.5.1, the field name "File-look-up" paths on the PL/I property groups "Editor configurations" is misleading including the description in the help: File-look-up paths: Specify the local directory paths or remote libraries where the editor s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

com.ibm.ftt.jes.util.core.JesJobUtil.hasJobFinishedExecuting() returns false even if Job has been purged

com.ibm.ftt.jes.util.core.JesJobUtil.hasJobFinishedExecuting() returns false if Job name passed in argument doesn't exist. When using the API to submit a job and then wait for its completion, one needs to implement a polling mechanism (loop + slee...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

Enhance audit log

If a file is copied to the PC thru RDz, we want the activity to be logged on the mainframe. Currently, the RDz log on the host shows that the file was read. This is not granular enough to indicate if a file was copied.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

mod to locate command line in RDz ispf editor on top of screen

in your RDz product, it would be helpful if one could relocated the editor command line to the top
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered