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Better charts

Hi,we need as soon as possible some better line, column and bar charts like this: http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/line/site_traffic/ http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/column/oil_r...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Expand the capabilities of the Push to Client Features supported in IBM Developer for z/OS

The following link lists the currently supported configuration items that are supported with the IDz Push to Client feature. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/15.0?topic=configuration-planning-push-client-environment This is a request ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration

improvment in carma view subfolder refresh mechanism

carma view displays wrong extentions to member and unsynchronized members list in carma view and search view, if changed.the only way to refresh the view is to refresh directly the parent folder.holding the members.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

adding propery group support for carma view/browse option

when opening a member from Carma view in brose or view modethere is no proprty group associated with it and so the code understanding is very limited
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration