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Code folding feature in RDz Cobol Editor

This is a request to incorporate the "code folding" feature in the Cobol editor in RDz. The LPEX editor has this feature by using X or XX to "hide" lines. Ideally this should work with Scoped statements. i.e. all the statements in an IF-ENDIF pair.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Améliorer l'ergonomie des entités "Bloc Base de Données" dans RPP

ESP utilise les entités "Bloc Bases de Données" pour générer des DDL pour DB2 sur z/OS.L'utilisation de ces designs n'est pas ergonomique, notamment le -DR.En particulier nous allons passer à DB2 V12 prochainement, ce qui va impliquer de changer b...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 Maven Plugins

I want a maven plugin that allows us putting source code into maven projects and compile them on the mainframe.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

HLASM toolkit needs to support line-mode programs which use PUTGET and TGET macros

The HLASM Toolkit needs to support line-mode programs such as those which use the PUTGET and TGET macros/services. When such programs are tested using the Toolkit, the macros return invalid command buffer data. The Toolkit tests the programs as 32...
over 11 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Support for enumerations in EGL

There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Message metadata repository for IMS/TM

Actually there is neither a way to retrieve message metadata for typical IMS transactions in IMS TM Resource Adapter or IMS Enterprise Suite Connect API from an IMS controlled nor metadata source nor a way to retrieve such metadata from IMS Java a...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

zUnit Assertion to include also less than, greater than

It would be better if the Assertion logic also include the Greater than (>) and Less than (<) comparison.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

This is a test idea raised via the new Z Software portal

This is for testing purposes
almost 3 years ago in Record Generator for Java 0 Not under consideration

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