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Status of all the connections defined in the Z/OS project view

In the Z/OS perspective we need to get the status of all the connections defined in the "Remote System" view. As we have several environments and we are regularly facing time out issues we need this clearly until the component level we are updated.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Disposer d'un bouton Collapse permettant d'afficher la liste des zfolders d'un projet

Dans la vue z/OS Projects, il existe un bouton "Collapse all" pour revenir ? la liste des Projets. Nous souhaitons disposer d'un autre bouton collapse permettant sur un projet de revenir ? la liste des zfolders. N.B. : Nous travaillons en compl?me...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Improve FIND and FIND NEXT commands for source finds for the Debug Tool GUI

Customer has asked we add similar functions as found in the ISPF FIND command in the program source window. Specifically they requested:FIND using column boundaries (FIND JOE 1 10)FIND text PREV or NEXTFIND text WORD or PREFIX or SUFFIX
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Copy selected fields from a record returned from SQL query

User want to have a feature to copy selected fields in a record from SQL results. Currently the copy option apply to whole record.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

IBM Tools & DB2 Catalog Table Access

Our company purchased and deployed the RDz tool. Since deployment, we've had issues with new RDz users showing up in our audit reports for violations against the DB2 catalog tables. In my shop, we do not grant PUBLIC access to the catalog tables. ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

request to support spaces on installation path for launchpad.exe

This a request following APAR PI14022 and PMR 84071,7TD,000 to allow spaces on installation path in launchpad.exe.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

in the output remote jobs add the step the job is on if it is running.

When I look at my jes log out in the remote systems, please add the step lib that the job is on if it is active. Though I remember seeing this submitted somewhere but can't find it so sorry if this is a duplicate.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

handle PL/I constructs/macros without preprocessing

This request is a follow up on PMR# 76639,010,678 Currently, the real-time syntax check gives errors for some specific PL/I constructs or macros. It can be solved by adding the MACRO option and by running the preprocessor through "Identified using...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

Run Code Coverage in batch as a part of CI with out having to compile with debug.

In order to run code coverage, we would have to compile with debug and then run the code coverage and recompile with debug turned off. Comiple with debug is not allowed in Test,Release evironments. we would like to run the code coverage without ha...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Ability to run static code analysis on the deltas(changes only) of the source file

There could many violations to the existing code and as a user trying to complete project in time, I would not have time to fix all the violations, that could imply more testing effort is required. As long as I dont introduce a violation, we shoul...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration