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add move command for members of libraries

When moving a member from a library to another using RDz (RemoteSystemsView or z/OSProjectsView), you have to copy the file and delete if afterwards. It would be useful to have a move/cut command for files.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Drop warning message for EXCI programs

We have programmers who feel compelled to have their compiles complete with a zero return code. This became an issue when we upgraded from COBOL 4.2 to 6.2; the warning message was not issued with the old version. With the integrated translator, t...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Dataset reports, Dataset flow graph need to show the relationships between datasets when read and write is done through HOGAN

Currently the Dataset reports and Dataset flow graph is unable to show the relationships between dataset when the read and write is performed through Hogan activities. It is important for this feature to be enabled when read and write is performed...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of steps necessary to show annotations

Showing annotations currently is a three-step-process: Right-Clicking a program, Selecting "Annotations - Show Annotations" and finally hitting search. The mandatory click on "Search" should happen automatically when clicking on "Show annotations"...
almost 8 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Filter on MVS files in a workspace

We are currently are using RDz 9.1.1 ! I would like to be able to create a global workspace so various users at our enterprise can use it.In that workspace, would I like to be able to create (MVS Files) filters with user id as a part of the filter...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Make CRUISE Startup more like ZUDFM INIT

We had a situation where automation must have been running behind, so an operator started a CRUISE Capture job and before it completed, automation started. So we had this sequence:START job (by functional entry twice) and before it completed, STAR...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

MSG ID for record coming out in CSDL TDQ

When CICS writes records to CSDL for all the RDO changes, the record looks like below. 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 01/14/19 07:44:39 DEFINE TRANSACTION(WXYZ) GROUP(JOHN) PROGRAM(WXYZ) TWASIZE(0) PROFILE(DFHCICST) 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 BEFORE 01/14/19 07...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS - Auditing CEMT commands

Auditing system programming interface commands generates messages which are directed to the CADS transient data queue.At the moment only partial data are written in SMF RACF records, insufficient to build a security audit log from this source. To ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SSRANGE option to omit Reference Modification from range checking

Add an SSRANGE sub-option that omits COBOL Reference Modification from range checking.
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Adding IBM Deep search with ChatGPT Codex (or IBM Coding Services) by AI driven Coding training and inference ( can be Human Supervised)

Using IBM Deep search with Coding services will train the AI System for Optimized code and it will make the software development more efficient in coding, testing, tracking and debugging. Also may be add the AI driven DevOps Orchestration
almost 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 11 Not under consideration

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