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Allow us to be able to access IAM file format through RDz

We need to have access to IAM file format through RDz.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Allow editing of Mainframe files within RDz without doing EBCDIC to ASCII conversion and using a third party editior

RDz does an EBCDIC to ASCII conversion of data when trying to view a file. Some data on the mainframe is in ASCII format and the conversion makes the data unreadable within RDz. There needs to be a option to not do the data conversion on files. Th...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Replace the TPFSHARE environment variable with a RDz-version dependent equivalent

The TPFSHARE environment variable that points to the local installation directory is used by a number of components. If multiple RDz versions are installed on the same computer, this mechanism obviously cannot work correctly because only TPFSHARE ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Allow the associated property group to be edited directly from the resource

Restore the functionality provided in RDz 7.5 but removed in 7.6 to allow the associated property group to be edited directly from the resource. Suggestion: Augment the Property Group context menu (currently Associate Property Group ?, Override Pr...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Regular expression search not available from Remote z/OS Search

Regular expression search is not currently available from Remote z/OSSearch tab in RD/z.We would like this functionality because we think it would be verybeneficialto have the Regular expression search feature available on thistab.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Opening a local element causes a loop

When opening a local element the element is opened over and over again in a non-stoppable loop. We have a EditorListener that implements IPartListener. In the partOpened method we synchronize the local file with the host file by using .setContents...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

LPEX to maintain tags in columns 73-80

There are several groups that use columns 73-80 in their COBOL programs to tag the modifications to the program (they use initials and a6 digit date, i.e. BH120309). When I edit one of these programs andpress enter (new line) in the middle of a li...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Allow a common place for import/export of RD/z settings

I would like to see a common import/export facility for the likes of connections, property groups, file system mappings etc in a similar vein to browsers. Currently, RD/z has import/export in a variety of places. This would also allow for the impo...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

RDz 7.6 CARMA/Endevor does not provide Move Function

RDz 7.6 CARMA/Endevor does not provide the ability to Move (Promote) an element that is not part of a Package. Reference: PMR #49717,487,000
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Add indicator/label to perform hierarchy view within RDz if paragraph is only performed due to conditional processing.

The perform hierarchy view is able to show all of the paragraphs for a cobol program that could be executed and outline those but would like to have an icon difference represented in the view if that perform is only entered based on condition logi...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

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