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outline view alphabetic ordering of procedures in pl1

When using outline view on a Cobol program you have the option to sort alphabetically. This option is NOT available in PL1. If you have a PL1 program with many procedures and functions it can be very hard to find a specific procedure in the outlin...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Using special characters "/" and "\" in z/OS connection name cause Host Terminal Emulator NOT to come up and NO error message

RDz should prevent using special characters for the "connection name" parameter, after the user enters a wrong value or make it work properly. There might be a bug in the HoD Plugin that does not use properly the "Host Name" parameter as the "conn...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

BMS Array Editor to edit a multidimensional array.

When RDz reads a BMS file that contains a multidimensional array, RDz does not allow to edit the array as we get an error message indicating that "the total width exceeds the defined table width". In the detected case we have that the customer def...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Wizard to setup eclipse rdz workspace needed

If we install RDz, we have also to provide a standard eclipse workspace for our customers, otherwise they are not able to use the tool. We copy our "template workspace", but in this workspace there is a lot of information about the person, who cre...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

We expect that COBOL low-value(X'00') should be converted to xsi:nil="true" attribute on an XML element by XML Converter.

We'd like to request you to implement new function of COBOL XML converter generated by RDz V7.6.1.We expect that XML converter will set the XML attribute xsi:nil="true" and not set any data, if the following conditions meet. (1)The conversion dire...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

XML Converter code does not handle COMP-5 items gracefully

If the COBOL compiler options are set to TRUN(BIN) or if the PICTURE CLAUSE USAGE is set to COMP-9, the generated XML to COBOL converter code still looks at the picture clause definition of a numeric item when converting from XML. This gives rise ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

Extension support of vendor specific languages in project builds

RDz client should allow for extended use of build project for vendor specific languages (eztrieve). Currently, project builds can be done for any language that RDz recognizes by default (cobol, asm). we need the ability to create new file extensio...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Offer (Define) Mapset in Design-Palette (BMS-Map Editor)

If I have created an empty (!) member on the mainframe and I then alter the extension within RDz to *.bms I can then double-click and open it with the BMS Map Editor. In such a case (which would not be thus exotic!) it would help a lot to have an ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

PLEASE Delete this PFE

THIS IS NOT AN ISSUETHIS WORKSPlease delete this RFEIf you have a PDS with 9000+ members and would like to filter on member names it is not possible to make a filter like this SYS4.UT.GEST1(HW*) for instance to show all member starting with HW onl...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

When opening a PDS member that is already open in LPEX, the message box should indicate the user who has it opened

When opening a PDS member that is already open in LPEX, the message box should indicate the user who has it opened.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

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