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Debug Tool Tracing Capabilities

Debug Tool provides some basic levels of tracing to the log. However, much of the tracing requires a programmable file, and most users will not attempt to create a USE file, and debug the commands to provide tracing. In addition, some of the comma...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Route Cobol DISPLAY data to DEBUG Log

Users have has requested that Cobol Display data (SYSOUT) be routed to the Debug Tool Log, where it is visible when testing. Apparently one of their error routines will display data, and at that point they wish to take an action. However, this is ...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Confirmation message on panel EQAPTPRM - Option 6 under Debug Tools

When using option 6, - Debug Tool User Exit Data Set - Modify the data set used by user exit during program initialization, a user enters data into the panel EQAPTPRM, and press Enter, or PF3, no confirmation message is provided that the data ente...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Provide 'Compare with Local history' for members in Remote Systems view

Within the COBOL and also all further editors, the context menu provides these two actions: > Compare with local history> Replace with local history. For a file within the remote systems view, there is only "Replace with local history" avail...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Delivered

Documentation should indicate how to configure BIDI for a DB2 connection

IDz knowledge center page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_15.0.0/com.ibm.etools.zide.cmn.doc/topics/azddb2con_2.html does not indicate that BIDI needs to be set on a DB2 connection to correctly display Hebrew
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Delivered

Editor enhancement : better handling of column 72

Copy these 2 lines to the lpex editor: dcl y fixed bin(31); /* TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST */ Place the cursor after ?;? in the first line.Press delete. It preserves the 27 blanks giving us: dcl y fixed bin(31); /* TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Editor Keyboard Shortcuts for Undo and Redo

Hello,<br /><br />what about implementing the Windows (and Linux) default shortcuts for undo typing (CTRL+Z) and redo typing (CTRL+Y) within all editors including LPEX, Java, Cobol or PL1 editor?<br /><br />It's very annoyi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve performance when opening filters with number of datasets

Following PMR# 13142,031,724 and APAR PM83984, further performance improvement when opening large filters on the Remote Systems explorer view could be obtained by using Catalog Search Interface (CSI) instead of the current implementation. CGI is a...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

Controll popup window at debug session end in RD/z

in a pseudo conversational transaction this popup window is displayed so many times that it is very hard to debug this application .
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

File-look-up field is misleading

In RDz 8.5.1, the field name "File-look-up" paths on the PL/I property groups "Editor configurations" is misleading including the description in the help: File-look-up paths: Specify the local directory paths or remote libraries where the editor s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

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