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Limit the size of drag and drop file in RDz

Need a way to control the file size for the "drag and drop" action from host to local. If the file size exceed a predefined value, the action should fail.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

DB2 Comment -- colors

In the PDP Editor, I would like to be able to configure the color of DB2 comments. In the attached image, you'll see the DB2 comments in red boxes. They look like all of the other code in working storage. Can -- be recognized and highlighted?
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Future consideration

In PL/I MPO to Java converter in J2C Add the ability to use bit values other than multiples of 8

During a POC, IBM Germany is attempting to use the PL/I MPO to Java tooling in J2C packaged with IDz but supplied by RAD. The include file has bit fields that are currently not supported. This request is to add support for bit fields other than in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data items

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data item.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Make 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...' more flexible to fit customer needs

Hi, I have some issues with function 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...'. I collected these after talking with our developers, so this are issues real developers have. We took those issues using latest IDz 15.0.2 on Linux. As reference have a l...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 2 Future consideration

Extend IDz editor for mass editing of Refactor function.

Hello In the IDz refactor option, there is a feature to remove noisy words. It works fine at each component level, but there is a future need to activate this noisy word for mass editing of multiple components at the same time. Please note this is...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

zUnit: support for unit testing of nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

Enhance COBOL Save Actions for Copybooks

Have a look at the Save Actions page for the COBOL editor: Under "Copybook Files" there are only 2 options (whitespace / format). This suggests, only these 2 options are configurable for copybooks. In reality also all settings under "Source Files"...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration