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COBOL Editor "SURROUND" improvement

In Java, the "Surround" is performed regardless of how lines are markeda) You break the first line and the last one but the lines in between are fully marked b) You mark a full group of statements from first character of statement one to last char...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Add code review rules to IDZ to help with Syntax Check with migration to COBOL6

Add these 4 code review rules to IDZ to help with Syntax Check with migration to COBOL6:1. Zeroth occurrence is referred in the array2. Non numeric data to numeric fields. Move or condition check for Zone decimal fields against non-numeric data ca...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Import Search-results which I have exported the day before when I have to work on a search-result-list more than one day.

Import Search-results which I have exported before so I can continue opening unchanged files from this list with a double click.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support for older version of rocket git, specifically options in .gitattributes file

Please allow backward compatibility of IDz to work with options defined in older version of Rocket Git. Updates for tools can take a long time to complete and having newer versions IDz incompatible with specific versions of Rocket Git causes numer...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Allow on the fly changes to .gitattributes to take effect immediately

Please allow changes to .gitattributes files to take effect immediately. Currently, only a new clone of the repo will force IDz to update file tags, however, that is slow and cumbersome.
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Secure RDz workspace in encrypted sandbox

There are several security concern from system Z customer view. The number 1 is the Foot Print issue. RDz store the download file without encryption. When exit workbench, the temporary file is even not deleted. If we can allocate a file spaces wit...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Allow key bindings for Menu Manager Actions

Many developers prefer to operate with as less mouse clicks as possible and prefer using the keyboard as much as possible. Now the Menu Manager actions are available only using the mouse or by slowly navigating with the cursor keys through the con...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

IDZ 14.1 jcl include and procedure search libraries

When running zunits in IDZ 14.1 the runner job abended looking for the AZUZUNIT proc. I had given the proclib pds name in the "include and procedure search libraries" field. The only way for me to get around this wa to code a jcllib statement in t...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow reference to GDG Base in z/OS Projects

Currently it's only possible to add absolute GDG versions to a z/OS project, which is not very helpful at all. We need to add the GDG base (and all versions under the tree as in libraries with members) to z/OS projects
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

CARMA/Endevor enhancement

This situation is experienced at Rabobank where we are in the midst of a rollout of RDz. 1. When moving multiple elements it is not possible to have them processed in the correct order. To have an additional wizard screen where we can put the elem...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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