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Search query for content on 'Remote z/OS Search' can not be saved

When doing 'Remote z/OS Search' for members or datasets the query can be saved in the 'My Seach Queries' list. When doing 'Remote z/OS Search' for contents of a file the query can not be saved. But this needs to be possible as well.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Provide error message when compile parms exceed 100 characters

Can we have a pop-up message in the Property Group UI or at 'JCl Generate' time if the COBOL parameters exceed 100 characters. The message could indicate other options to use for supplying COBOL parms...eg CBL card at front of COBOL source
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Sicky Notes for SFF Flows

As a "Nice to Have", it would be very nice to be able to attach some type of documentation to the artifacts generated.Even a simple text file that we could promote to the mainframe. This would help us not lose our lessons learned as we hand off ou...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Option in COBOL and JCL LPex editors to automatically uppercase source code

Add option to RDz COBOL LPex editor automatically uppercase COBOL source code. This feature is incorporated in RDi. The option will automatically uppercase any source code that's entered that is not in enclosed in quotes.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

Generate JCL Enhancement

Provide 2 additional buttons on the Generated Compile JCL notification pop up. One button will Submit the generated JCL. The other button will Edit the generated JCL.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

List of MVS Files in RDz should be sortable alphabeticaly only

The remote system explorer should provide the option to sort the list of MVS in purely alphabetical like in ISPF.Currently the list has a fixed sort order of first by file type and then by name.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Emulator - Right Click Copy/Paste on selected content

In the Host Emulator window, when you make a selection of text you need to use either the ctrl+c shortcut command or use the edit -> copy menu command. It is my request to add the ability to right click the Emulator window and add a menu of act...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Browse of load modules needs to be possible

It should be possible to open a MVS load module into the RDz editor for browsing purposes as it is possible using ISPF.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Undo-Redo works differently in RDZ/LPEX than in other Windows tools

We have a problem with the UNDO function in LPEX. It works differently than in (e.g.) MS_Word. As a consequence, it happens that by undoing code updates, the user may inadvertently reintroduce a piece of code which he previously deleted intentiona...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Disable Source-Mode per Preferences Settings (in BMS Map Editor)

For the every-day map developer it's quite dangerous to use Source-mode as he can easily destroy the internal representation of valid map-constructs. So it should be possible to disable this mode per a BMS-Map Preferences option or to set it to Re...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

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