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Improve JES navigation through job dd outputs

Today we view the contents of a ddname in JES Job. Once we are in the ddname, we need some way to go to the next or previous ddname automatically. Maybe provide user the ability to click on left arrow or right arrow when they are currently browsin...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

RDz: Debugger variable display issue

Debugger monitor view should be able to show the contents of variables greater than?32K.
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

RDz: CARMA wizard customization

RFE submitted at request of Venkat (Rational Architect) Need to have full control over the CARMA wizard in regards to prefilling entries and changing labels. A label tailoring example would be changing "Extract to Remote Project" --> "Copy from...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: HCE / Program tab in Debugger should blink once the control is returned

RFE submitted at request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While debugging, and if control is returned from the program to CICS/IMS transaction screen in HCE, HCE should blink stating that the control is transferred to HCE instead of the user manuall...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz: Change filter properties

RFE submitted at Venkat's (IBM Rational architect) request. In RSE, instead of requiring the user to click on Properties to modify the filter, provide filter option as follows:Filter --> Create New Filter --> Modify
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz: Default mgmt class when allocating new dataset

Submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) When creating a dataset on RDz, by default its management class is set to #IMMED, which means everything on that dataset will get deleted after the user logs off WITH NO BACKUP. Would be nice...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Need multiple HCE emulators

Bank developers need to open an emulator to execute a transaction in the production CICS region, and then open a second emulator to execute the same transaction in the test region. They wish to view and compare the screens side-by-side. How do we ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: create a PDS filter for PDS members and then search based on the PDS filter

User wants to create a PDS member filter that displays only those members supported by the filter. He does not want to use the Locate cmd. Also, the user wants to search the PDS restricting the search only to the contents of the PDS filter. He doe...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Error handling from CARMA

RFE submitted at request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While compiling or linking a load module using the CARMA interface, RDz is not receiving the errors properly from TSO. The user is forced to look into JES for error messages. Rather we should...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz: CARMA dataset movement

RFE submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) We would like to drag/drop source modules from CARMA to z/OS Projects. In summary, CARMA should behave similar to RSE.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration