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Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Unreferences variables reporting capability

'Unreferenced working-storage variables' report would be nice to have maybe under 'Dead Code Reports' section.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 needs to utilize the memory in the 64 bit address space for business needs and quicker access to data

Humana proposes the following changes to the COBOL 6 compiler OR, creation of a new COBOL64 compiler with these capabilities.1. Make the Compiler capable of utilizing the 64-bit address space to take advantage of the 32 terabytes of memory on each...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE 3.x - SMF 123 enhancement to capture failure events

Part of enhancing SMF 123 record structure for z/OS Connect (both API provider and API requester), Please consider to capture ONLY the first failure (similar to FFDC) related data for any repeated USER enforced failures.. Eg., Authorization failur...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ability to turn on all tracing / logging with one command

from a support point of view and customer view too it would be great if there either is a command or a setting in EQAOPST which shows all available outputs . over the years we have added traces for different areas , they all have to be enabled by ...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support Multiple IP-addresses in z/OS Connect EE

Our client is making an outbound API call from CICS using z/OS Connect EE. Client's API team presented us with three IP-addresses for their API server. The addresses was pointed to the same server with each corresponding to an availability zone fo...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools interface : Advanced DSN patterns in Component creation from IBM Z

In the Tools Server of the ZDT Solution, I would suggest to enhance the DATASET research filter in the view " Create a component from Zos System Files" to be able to setup complex filters.
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Editeur Cobol et vue Outline absents en session de deboggage sous MicroFocus/Eclipse

Donner la possibilité d'utiliser l'Editeur Cobol et la vue Outline en session de deboggage sous MicroFocus/Eclipse sans IDZ
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect MQ one-way notification

z/OS Connect 1-Way operation MQPut. When a request is processed the MQPut successfully writes the message to the queue but no response is returned to the browser to confirm the request failed or was successful.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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