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make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Save Menu Manager variables

When displaying a menu window. It displays the default values that we defined (Windows -> Preferences -> Menu Manager -> Actions and Menus). Is there a way to remember the user last choice? So when I set a library name, it will be display...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Use of commands for Debug Tool through RDz

The scenario considered for this request is a developer using IBM Rational Developer for z Systems V9.5.1 (RDz), with Debug Tool for z/OS V13.1 (DT) to debug programs. In the debugging sessions, they need to execute some Debug Tool commands for sp...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Allow reference to GDG Base in z/OS Projects

Currently it's only possible to add absolute GDG versions to a z/OS project, which is not very helpful at all. We need to add the GDG base (and all versions under the tree as in libraries with members) to z/OS projects
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

RDz' PL/I editor handling text entry skewed to or entered beyond col 73.

In Rdz the PL/I editoris is able to skew text or enter text beyond col 73, whereby it may be nessesary to cut and paste text beyond col 73, in oder to recover text.I would prefer the editor to be expanded also to facilitate options to switch text ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Quick Reference Cards to ease searching for developers and to promote adoption of RDz

Quick Reference Cards are the way for developers to have a large part of the functionality at hand. It gives them the means to find RDz actions fast. An example of a Quick Reference Card can be found for the CICS Explorer. It is attached to this RFE.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

zUNIT: add optional field that the user would type in the CICS region for Recording Service

Now that CICS support is implementing the CICS Recording Service on other CICS regions I noticed that IDZ has no way of differentiating which URL is pointing to which CICS region. The only identifier is the port number but there’s no way to know w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

User build option to be visible for second program as project default for 1st program and wizard to be improved

It will reduce the developer time for userbuild. I have added all description as attached the screen and shot. Kindly refer the ticket no TS009289506 if any additional questions
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

COBOL Editor ignores Propertygroup

I have COBOL code in a file on a remote system and the exact same code in a local file. When I open the remote file the propertygroup (and especially the preprocessor extension) is used, when I open the local file it is not. The features of the ed...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Emulator requests color

When in the host emulator we need to have the ability to be able to change colors was we can in windows.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration