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Start AD ?variable usage? function from IDz editors

A developer currently has to copy the variable name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name has to be pasted and the analysis "variable usage" has to be started. We b...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IMS client TMRA version in CEX log

We would like to have IMS client TMRA version in IMS connect CEX log.
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Different colors for userdefined variables/sections in IDz

To set syntax coloring in idz you go into preferences => cobol => editor => syntax coloring. I want to be able set different colors for my variables or my section names in a cobolprogram. Supose that in working storage I have a variable c...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow to include 88-clauses

The data flow tools don't measure the data flow for 88-clauses of variables although even the compiled assembler listing is identical. We expect the data flow also to handle 88-clauses as if they are a specific value of the main variable.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Allow copy/paste from/into Java TextForm Field

After downsize from EGL genned COBOL/CICS and frontend TextForm 3270 to EGL genned Java/Windows and frontend TextForm 3270, the customer lost the copy / paste functionality to TextForm field.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Identify unused variables at 01 level with no subordinates

In IDz if I right click in the source code of a Cobol program and choose Refactor/Identify Unused variables, it doesn't identify those that are not at an 01 level.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Extend RDz pushToClient-feature, add MVS-/JES-Filters, Edit MyJobsFilter

Currenty (RDz 9.5.1) contains a pre-defined JES-Filter (MyJobs) for Jobs where the user is the Job owner. In our Company not all Jobs initiated by the user are running with the user as Job owner. In such cases it would be a great help to maintain ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Introduce hard license control mechanism

Customer requires hard license control mechanism to ensure that they are in compliance with audit practices.
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CEMT TSModel SET command

Ability to do a CEMT SET TSModel to change the Expiry or Prefix.Also same in WUI and CICS Explorer. This would allow to do dynamic change, rather than CEDA ALTER and CEDA Install.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration