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COBOL Compiled XML Conversion: XML2LS language structure initialization support

Customer Published Description to be provided.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Support Packed Data

Support Packed Data. The debugger can discriminate Binary data from Zoned Decimal, it should also be able to discriminate and show packed data.Packed data fields come up as ?EQA2377E Invalid data? in the monitoring window.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Support Break After evaluation on statement

Support Break After evaluation on statement.A second suggestion related to the type of thing above (see RFE ID 2436), especially on CALL and LINK and I-O statements, would be to have the ability to BREAK on a statement AFTER the statement is execu...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Support for EXEC SQL

Support for EXEC SQL statements so they won't get flagged by real time syntax checker when they are actually ok and so that includes included by EXEC SQL INCLUDE are correctly suported in the real time syntax checker.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

no DSNTIAR.cbl in sample lib - only pli version is available

no DSNTIAR.cbl in sample lib - only pli version is available
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

View or ballon message with a variables declaration

We would like to have a view with all variables declare information. When that variable is in focus (under the cursor) the declaration view should have the declare value in focus.Alternativley/additionaly we would like to have the declare informat...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Support for XML attributes

Customer need to be able to create inbound and outbound programs for XML schemas that contains XML attributes with values. Like <person sex="female">.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Could not rename when PDS is in use

If another use is opening PDS on TSO, a member in the corresponding PDS can be opened, edited and deleted, but when trying to Rename give an error, "I/O Operation Failed , Dynamic Allocation Failed. Cannot use requested data set. Dataset is alloca...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

Fully qualified variables in cobol content assist

In content assist having an option of selecting a fully qualified variable - like in PL/I.It would be especially nice if it is controlled by a preference to choose between having unqualified, both unqualified and fully qualified and fully qualifie...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Change preferences for LPEX editing so the developer can decide if and when the include members are refreshed for editing

With RDz version 7.1.1 the include members are refreshed with every action executed in the LPEX editor. Since Fortis has an average of 30 include members in each PL/I program this takes a long time. It can be up to 4 minutes when working with a so...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

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