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IBM Developer for z/OS

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special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Default Outline Filter when editing source files

When editing a PL1 (or any other source) file, you can define a filter for the content of the outline view. But these filters are only stored per program, you have to define it separately for every program.It should be possible to store the filter...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Quick Fix not available in the RDz Editor for COBOL.

We try to use Quick Fix function to resolve warnings and errors in the editor but it's not available.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

A "Replace All" action should be reverible with a single UNDO command

The Replace All actions treats each of its edits separately, so UNDO (Ctrl+Z) and REDO (Ctrl+Y) serially backs off or reapplies each edit. When the number of edits exceeds the size of the UNDO buffer, it becomes impossible to reverse a Replace All...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add color coding for DO's/END's in LPEX and other editors

Add the ability in the different editors to have DO's/END's color coded. First level DO/END would be one color, say red, second level DO/END would be another color, say white, etc. This would make it easier to be sure your DO's are properly termin...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Host Connection Emulator Settings

Enable critical security related fields in Host Connection Emulator as preferences that can be supported and enforced via Push to Client or enhanced installation default settings.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Need IDz Web service custom converter to support array truncation

CICS Web service assistant DFHLS2WS has this new option TRUNCATE-NULL-ARRAYS. IDz supports it too but only for CICS bottom-up Web service projects with interpretive XML conversion type.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Support CICS / DB2 command in IDz Data Flow diagram

The "Data Flow" feature introduce in IDz v14 should support CICS / DB2 command. This significantly reduce the value of this feature.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz9.1.1.1 - software analyzer for PLI should proceed with analysis even if there are syntax errors in the include files

We would like to have an enhanced software analyzer for PLI files, we need the analysis results to be produced even if there are errors with include files(copybooks) in the PLI source.We have already raised the below PMRs for enhancing the perform...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration