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Plugins needed to generate deployable Enterprise Service Tools artifacts

We are using the Enterprise Service Tools perspective from within IDz. We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system, preferably L...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

RDz compare program in different CARMA environment

When compare 2 programs in 2 different CARMA Endevor environment, it not show the environment name in the comparison windows. So it is very inconvenience to user to know which one (right or left) is actually in which enviornment. Also missing is s...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Make 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...' more flexible to fit customer needs

Hi, I have some issues with function 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...'. I collected these after talking with our developers, so this are issues real developers have. We took those issues using latest IDz 15.0.2 on Linux. As reference have a l...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 2 Future consideration

Using ALTERNATE INDEX VSAM file in zUnit

VSAM (KSDS) using ALTERNATE INDEX is not currently supported when unit test is performed with zUnit. Our PJT uses VSAM which defined ALTERNATE INDEX very much, and efficiency can not be expected unless we can not unit test by zUnit for maintenance...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RSE is outlined as the ENQ-User for a user- or team-library under TSO/ISPF

In certain cases, RSE is outlined as the ENQ-User for a user- or team-library under TSO/ISPF. The origin user, who has the ENQ cannot be evaluated in TSO/ISPF by hitting PF1 twice. There is a workaround to determine the correct user, who has the E...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Is a defect

Find Unreachable Variables using RDz

Enhance RDz to find dead or unreachable variables in a COBOL or PL/I file. Usually when I get asked this question, I reply with the ?identify unreachable code' option available in COBOL and hopefully soon in PL/I, but that doesn't get very far. Wh...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz - Enable Software Analyzer features

RDz Software Analyzer currently supports the Analysis Summary report. The report shows Code Quality, Code Complexity, and Code Structure however the values are always set to zero. This request is to enable those fields so as to produce meaningful ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Shortcut to toggle the vertial line in the editor

We are using the PL/I editor and our developers who test IDz 14.0.0.5 like the possibility to have a vertical line for alignment of code - this is a big help. But they do complain about a missing shortcut to turn it on/off.It is too time consuming...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Extend IDz editor for mass editing of Refactor function.

Hello In the IDz refactor option, there is a feature to remove noisy words. It works fine at each component level, but there is a future need to activate this noisy word for mass editing of multiple components at the same time. Please note this is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration