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With IDz EST SOAP, allow Copy Books to be added from level >1 and allow Request/Response from different copybooks

With IDz Enterprise Service Tools SOAP bottom up method, allow the Copy Books to be "started" from level >1. Allow different copybooks to be used for Request and Response. This is the primary problem, but there were a few other limitations the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add preference option to suppress or control prompting behavior for multi-selected elements

The following problem description and solution was provided the CARMA developer. ---- Start of problem description ----The way CARMA works is that when you select multiple elements, CARMA will present a dialog for each selection. The IDz Endevor I...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

RDz Content Assist for SQL EXEC statements does not provide correct information.

The RDz Content Assit for DB2 is working fine for an EXEC SQL SELECT and in some cases( like EXEC SQL DECLARE or EXEC SQL INSERT) the Content Assist for DB2 does not work properly.. The RDz Content Assist for DB2 should not be reserved to simple S...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

Support refresh in SQL Outline view in RDz v9

in RDZ v9 integrated with Datastudio 4.1, it allows users to extract SQL from a cobol program into SQL outline view, and then run it separately. However, it don't have a way to refresh the view, that means when we remove the Cobol program from pro...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Real Time Syntax Checker doesn't flag missing parenthesis in a PIC clause

The COBOL or LPEX editor doesn't flag a missing parenthesis in a PIC clause unless a syntax check is performed.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

zUnit: support for unit testing of nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Not under consideration

Debug Profile service error

There is a defect in the IDz 15.0.1.0 client, when accessing the debug profile service.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 2 Not under consideration

RDz support for CICS EXEC CPSM command

RDz does not support EXEC CPSM commands. If we use RDz to edit COBOL programs containing CPSM commands, they are flagged as errors and the parser prevents some advanced functions like "Program Flow" from working.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration