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Support for SOAP Header

Currently SOAP header information is ignored by DFHWS2LS as indicated on the Infocenter: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.standards.doc%2Fcompliance%2FWSDL.html It would be good if RDz would support ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 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.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 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.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

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 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

RDz RSE Support for SMF Records Based on User ID

Currently the z/OS component for RDz called RSE does not identify individual RDz users. JPMC like many large customers do "Chargeback" to bill each customer based on system usage. Under RSE there is not way to do this. The customer has requested t...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Add date filter to job listing to alleviate response time issue

Please add the ability to filter JES jobs brought back to the RDz client screen by date. Preferably, the default settings can be managed by push-to-client, install options, or property groups.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

request to indent code in COBOL editor like in Java editor

Currently LPEX and COBOL editor do not indent COBOL code automatically while typing like in Java editor. For example: - type a IF statement and press return key - cursor moves under the IF while it would be also useful to have it indented further ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

Allow Show dependencies without JCL submit

This issue has been discussed on PMR# 08724,379,000. Problem is that if RDz procedure ELAXFCOC is not used for compilation and therefore not configured then Show dependencies will also not work because it needs to submit a Job using ELAXFCOC. It w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

Support RD&T running on virtualization environment such as VMWare vSphere.

Customer's their own IT policy is to use virtualization environment instead of buying new HW. So, they strongly want to run Rational Development and Test Environment (RD&T) on virtualization environments. But now, IBM doesn't support it yet. W...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Text wrap on macros

We would like to wrap text in macro name field in HOD (IBM Host On Demand) version 11.05. Please reference PMR 15874,057,649
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration