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Request to change RDz's error message

If the userid revoked by RACF, RDz shows different error message. Server failure, : EDC5121I invalid Argument,
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

text extraction feature

comment extraction feature to pull comments and descriptive text from the source code for adding to RAM assets or even providing a better start for documenting an application. It would cut down on time spent documenting as well as commenting in RA...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Have option to toggle filename extensions in project view

Provide an option to toggle off the extension name of a file in the project view. Currently I see ?XXXX.PDS.COBOL(MODNAME).cbl in the project view when I add a COBOL source member to my project/subproject. Windows allows me to set view options to ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Generation of Cobol Copy Books or PL/I Includes for MFS Maps in RDz

The RDz MFS Editor should be able to generate Cobol copy books or PL/I includes for the input fields that are edited with the graphical MFS Editor.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

more comfortable entry wizard for the RDz 7.5 debuggiung plugin

As of today: 1, the user needs to define 'deferred' if a program was not yet loaded by debug tool. 2: it is necessary to type in mostly 3 times the same name for module, compile unit and entry name. This could be made more comfortable by assuming ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

JESJobUtil has strange

JESJobUtil does not recognize the "cancelled job". If the job that is submitted by JESJobUtil, is cancelled, then hasJobFinishedExecuting(jobId) always return "false".
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

Copy of PDS members who contain characters, which might result in a roundtrip-problem, should not be allowed.

A member of a PDS can be corrupted by copying it into the same PDS via RSE, when it contains x'0D'. In order to avoid this corruption, RSE shouldn't allow me to copy such a member or it should do a binary copy instead.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Evaluate Variable length String Moves

Evaluate Variable length String Moves. We have a lot of ANSI X12 and HL7 formatted messages and records that require parsing and subsetting. When using the Monitor Tab to display these types of variables the "EQA2314E Evaluation not supported" mes...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Client authentication in RDz

RDz should enable SSL with client authentication. Currently only host authentication is supported.In addition, the user credentials have to be taken from a Smartcard interface, using MSCAPI, and then passed to the mainframe.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Regular expression search not available from Remote z/OS Search

Regular expression search is not currently available from Remote z/OSSearch tab in RD/z. We would like this functionality because we think it would be very beneficial to have the Regular expression search feature available on this tab.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

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