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Direct access to members and datasets using Menu Manager

Menu Manager should have the ability to directly open members and datasets in editor or give a result set in Remote Console with a list of clickable links to members and datasets from which the user can open then in editor. For example the respons...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

zUnit error MemoryShortageException: CRRZT0113E -nosec

Customer runs out of storage for large data layouts. Support recommends a RFE to resolve. "...attempting to open the Edit Test Data Layout for a COBOL program with lots of copybooks, and you receive this Memory Shortage Exception:" com.ibm.etools....
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

built-in function to return jobname, userid, etc

Provide a built-in function / subroutine (PLIZOS ?) returning system dependent information like JOBNAME, MAINPGMNAME, ? - in analogy with FILEDDWORD.
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 10 Delivered

Enhance SUPRESS attribute with LAXENTRY

Please add LAXENTRY to the SUPRESS attribute for procedures and entries – similar to LAXNESTED – in V6.1 Background: We want to activate RULES(NOLAXENTRY(LOOSE)) but have some own (deprecated) functions reading the PL/I descriptors leading to some...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow Compare of two CodeCoverage Runs

With Debug Tool Code Coverage you can generate a readable report and a xml file which contains all the statements and the information, which statements were used in a session.Sometimes it is interesting, which differences exists in comparison to a...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Microsoft Active Directory Integration for Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin

Currently, when setting up users and groups in Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin page, the administrators are going through a time consuming process of setting up users and groups manually. The users need to be added via an import f...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Request for a new function to record and store all input and output data at run time whether the test result is pass or fail

In Japan IDz users have not adopted zUnit. The reason is that they use COBOL Unit Test Tool before zUnit launch. COBOL Unit Test Tool is GBS IP asset and implemented as an eclipse plugin. However, they cannot use it with next IDz, because it uses ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

HEX pseudovariable

HEX and/or HEXIMAGE should be available as pseudvariable(s) - by analogy to UNSPEC.
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

IQIBUTIL JCL pre-processor function

DSC users could use the option to generate JCL for using IQIBUTIL functions via batch jobs.
about 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

CICS timeout for web client commands

We use RTIMOUT to limit the amount of time a CICS web client process(WEB OPEN/SEND/RECEIVE/CLOSE) will wait for a response from a web service. According to doc this is our only choice. It would be more convenient to have the ability to specify a t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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