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re-open empty tabs

If you close Eclipse and re-launch it, and some tabs remain open, you get a message: "No editor descriptor for id org.eclipse.ui.internal.emptyFolderTab". To resolve this, open the file if it is not occupied, or close the tab.
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Dependency Based Build is needed.

The current GA release of DBB does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of DBB in our Enterprise environment.
about 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Allow IDz RSE Retrieved data sets function to display dataset aliases the way ISPF 3.4 does.

In ISPF a 3.4 dataset search will list aliases and datasets. In RDz and IDZ the alias is not listed, a 0 found is returned. We are still using RSE server version 8.5 so this may have been resolved in new RSE server.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

To enable viewing of JCL Control Cards in AD Analyze Client

National Australia Bank has requested for the ability to view contents of JCL Control Files in the Explore Project functionality or JCL expansion.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - comment directive

We suggest implementing a "comment" compilation directive. This could be the >>* directive. This directive would allow comments to be introduced in a source code, which would not be returned to the compilation listing (so as not to overload ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Literal Enhancements

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG13001; Voting Priority=2.8 +5=2 +4=5 +3=4 +2=11 +1=2 abstain=3 Priority=2.8 NOTE 1: This is a follow-up (possible replacement for): SSLNGC08006 2002 ISO COBOL - Enhanced literal continuation support ...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Supersession issues with Swedish national characters

Hello Team, we have migrated from TPX to supersession. Our Swedish colleagues are complaining that when they use Swedish characters they are converted to Danish characters and thus their systems will fail search attempts and so on. One of the cpmp...
over 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Include execution times for Code Coverage reports

In the Code Coverage result we can see the percentage of execution coverage for each routine, and we request to show the time spent to execute the routines.
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide Default-SIT for HPO (HighPerformanceOption)

In CICS.SDFHAUTH is DFHSIT provided. Most of the parameters formerly have do be declared in your own SIT are now overwritable by PARM='SYSIN'-File. This is really good for administrative work.But for the HighPerformanceOption (HPO) we have to crea...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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