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Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

ServiceNow or JIRA Adhoc Job Submission to the CP

Eliminate manual error prone process by introducing the ability to have adhoc job submissions, change of workstation for HOLDs or DUMB via the ticketing platform (ServiceNow / JIRA) with approval workflow.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Functionality already exists

Need a way of listing available ZOAU Commands (reference list) from USS

ZOAU ibm documentation site has a 'Shell command Reference' section in the ZOAU manual - which is very useful. It would be just as useful to be able to get a "reference list" of available ZOAU commands from USS - instead of needing to open the man...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

On demand, embed the contents of members (e.g. control cards or parameters) referenced by a DD statement

When examining JCL, it is often desirable to reference the contents of members which contain options to be processed by a program. This capability would enable JCL Expert to automatically expand the contents of selected members and display them as...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

An options panel

As JCL Expert evolves, additional capabilities will require additional options. A panel (when invoking JCL Expert under ISPF) will provide an easy and flexible interface to specify options and obtain help for them. A complementary ISPF "command" w...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

A JCL (comment) statement that may be used to specify options

Enables specification of options that are specific to a JCL member and static (i.e. always in effect and saved with the member). Example: //*CXPXPERT option=value option=value option=value
about 1 year ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Planned for future release

IBM Debug: Warn for active "skip all breakpoints"

Hi IBM, In the Remote Debugger in IDz: To avoid debugging with all breakpoints off: please add a warning if the "skip all breakpoints" switch in the menu is active during start of a new debug session.
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Filter options to work with the policy in SA z/OS

Given the fact that we have a lot entries in the policy (PDB), it would be very useful to have the option to set some filters. The usability of the product would be greatly improved if you can filter application, message-id's and groups (and so on)
about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
about 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name Currently, it only allow operation number to be search which is really impractical.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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