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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Make Search Results Persistent

Enhancement to the IDz Remote z/OS Search View to make search results available between IDz sessions. Please add the ability to save the actual Remote z/OS File search results so the results are available between IDz sessions. There is already an ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

IDz SPOOL view show output in HEX

When using IDz's Remote System Explorer to view JES spool output, an option to view the hex values of the output should be given. Some program displays are not textual and seeing the underlying hex values is needed.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Compare the test cases/entries in zUnit test case editor

Compares the test contents of two or more test cases defined in zUnit.For example, we would like to compare the test cases with the test cases that we want to implement based on a single test case, such as a last successful test case.Users can cho...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Add Host Connection Emulators (HCE) to PushToClient

Specific configuration settings are required by our RDz 8.5.x and 9.0.1 clients: 1. z/OS Remote System Connections2. Host Connection Emulators (HCEs - one for each Remote System Connection)3. Help Content URLs (enablement/disablement)4. Other Soft...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Open big sysout whith IDZ

We have sysout with 500000 lines or more, and we can't open it with IDZ. For big sysout it is possible to add a function for open it at line n, or for search an particular string and open it a this line ? An editor similar to "Editeur de donnée Sy...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 9 Not under consideration

Enhancement for IDz Account Number\SMF Tracking

Request IBM to introduce an enhancement to the RDz (IDz) software. The enhancement will be to allow the mainframe portion of RDz to perform the necessary internal system interactions (i.e. SMF records) that will allow an individual RDz user's reso...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Clear Cache Automatically when IDZ is closed

As per Company policy, associates are refrained to store any NPPI/NPTI data on their local machines. However, it was observed that IBM Developer for zOS (IDz) software is using file cache technique (storing files in the local machine) to boost the...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 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...
7 months 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...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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