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Preference for blocking line length in PL1 and Cobol editor

We have some developers, which have a challenge some times they by accident add to much text to the lines, and when saving, it's truncated, since our Libarian/Endevor source repository only saves the first 80 columns of the source. If would be nic...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Control the file transfer size on RDz host?

Need a control from RDZ host to limit the maximum size of file transfer request.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RSA - R?gle "V?rifier la valeur du SQLCODE apr?s un EXEC SQL" et utilisation des WHENEVER

Voir ticket TS002533616
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Future consideration

Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Navigation au sein d'un programme C depuis Eclipse

Dans un z/OS project, lorsqu'on souhaite voir le contenu d'une fonction appelée dans un programme C mais qui est définie dans un autre source C (Touche F3), nous avons le message « could not found symbol nom_de_la_fonction in index ».
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Need Locate function in CARMA

Difficult to look for an element without the "Locate" function.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Support Remote files for EST Project Explorer

The "EST Project Explorer" view used for creating IMS SOAP XML Gateway converter modules should allow remote files for source copy books, WSDLs, etc.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

Unnumber in IDz is very slow & blocks the UI

If a program is relatively large (in this case it's 8000 lines long), then the unnumber option in IDz takes a long time (enough time to go and pick up a coffee) & IDz displays a progress bar that precludes you from doing anything else.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Provide a user ID variable support for MVS Filter strings similar to JES

Currently, our shop sets up multiple filters prefixed by RACF user ID so they are specific to the datasets they create for their own personal dataset members. The filter string for JES is already support &USERID so if they copied a filter it d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost.Cobol Editor ------------ 1) add one line like DISPLAY "one of the pgm's fields". 2) Highlight a paragraph name right click -> refactor -> Rename and rename. 3) close wi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration