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Display Cobol tables and PL/I arrays, single dimension & multi-dimension like native language in the RDz Monitor window

Take a 3 dimensional Cobol table that looks like this:01 TABLE1. 02 TABLE1B OCCURS 2 TIMES. 03 SUB-TABLE OCCURS 3 TIMES. 05 SUB-TAB-ID PIC XXX. 05 REC-FORMAT OCCURS 75 TIMES. 07 SEG-IND PIC X. 07 SEG-ID PIC XXX. 07 ADDR-OF-SEG POINTER.When I monit...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Need to password popup when after wrong password entered

Customer need to have password popup functionality when after wrong password entered on RDz's data tools. (Database development perspective). Once the user typed wrong password, and after tries 3times, the userid will revoke. When, wrong password ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

Add a message box indicating that no remote file synchronization is possible

When requesting a remote synchronization with no remote file, there is no indication that it can not be performed. This behavior is inherited from the team synchronization functionality from Eclipse. Eclipse indicates there isn't a remote file by ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Is a defect

Content Assist not available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z.

Content Assist (CTRL-Space) is not currently available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z. We would like this functionality because we think it would be very beneficial to have the Content Assist feature available on these tabs...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

limit the password length in Rational Developer for System z

When customer is useig 6 - 8 characters limited password. Unlimit password length of logon prompter can cause the user error. Length limiting in preference is required by customer's security policy.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz should permit copy+paste (drag-and-drop) of a PDS member to a PS file

RDz should permit copy+paste (drag-and-drop) of a PDS member to a PS file
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

The LPEX Editor in RDz has the search and replace facility with the CTRL-F key which has to be displayed correctly.

When the LPEX Editor is open with a source and the view is not maximized there is a problem with the display of the CTRL-F function. A piece of the LPEX view is reserved to show the options of the Search facility. However, when the LPEX view is to...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Initialize the commarea input in CICS WS Handler for the omitted and required SOAP request elements

If the Web Services client does not build the complete SOAP request message for the required element, the arbitrary values (invalid data) is passed to the CICS program. So, initialization of commarea in the handler is necessary before put this int...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

Second Editor opens for linked Source after double-click in the remote error list

Second LPEX-Editor in a different project is opened of the same source. The first editor is opened in the project in which I am working with a <<linked>> Source. That is as expected. After syntaxcheck I get errors in the list ?Remote E...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

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