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Inability to see element changes by version/level

In RDz, when you compare two elements you see them side by side. Endevor lets you see change history for a particular level of an element (by entering 'C' in front of the element name) either from 'Summary of Element Levels' or 'Element Selection ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 13 Delivered

Possibility to select any first qualifier when allocating MVS files

When we try to allocate an MVS dataset (MVS Files Allocate or "Allocate Like"), the high level qualifier is required as the Userid or a list of indexes corresponding to first level qualifier of existing filters.The user should be able to specify a...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Provide a plugin to RDz that will time out inactive debug sessions

When debugging an application in RDz, debug applications remain open until the user terminates the session. This presents problems if the developer were to walk away from their system. The running application holds system resources and could lock ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Mark matching COBOL "IF END-IF" statements in the RDz editor

With RAD and Java, the scope of an IF statement is highlighted by a rectangle marker surrounding the curly braces {}. It would be nice if the COBOL editor had a similar feature, especially when I have multiple IF statements nested within each other.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

CobolZosCopy-parser should handle cobol copybooks containing cobol coding

CobolZosCopy-parser handles cobol copybooks as if they can only contain data. If the copybooks contain coding instead of data there is no cobol support like content assist, perform hierarchy etc. We would expect the CobolZosCopy-parser to handle c...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Add the possibility to edit a widget thru the graphical designer

When you want to create a RUI handler you can use the graphical editor. With version 8 is further improved, but is not possible to edit a widget. You need to create a RUI Handler, design it and then change in the source the type from RUIHandler to...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGL RUI- "Create onEvent functions" on context click

It would be nice to have a RUI "Create onEvent Functions" fast functionality when writting code in RBD "source mode" (not just in design). Like with service calls: there you can (when in source mode) right click on the function name written after ...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Finding non printable characters in Editor

Some datasets from z/OS can't be opened with LPEX due to codepage restrictions. It would be very helpful to have a equivalent to ISPF-Editor command Find p'.', which points to the location of the character(s), that prevents the file from being edi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

RDZ RSE/LPEX should support IBM-274 (Belgium old)

RDz RSE/LPEX does not implement IBM-274 (called in the Host Emulator Belgium Old) (it is almost identical to french IBM-297 or IBM-1147 except a few characters). On the contrary, the Host emulator implements it.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz-JES: deleting jobs with DEL-key

In the jes-monitor within remote system view you can delete jobs via context menue, but not by pressing the DEL-key. It would be useful to have this function on a key.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

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