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Local COBOL compiler for .NET

Rational Developer for System z is able to compile COBOL locally generating a Windows native DLL. This is very useful for testing. Also, it can be useful to run on a Windows server the same COBOL code running in System z. The enhancement would con...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Use <HLQ> in another field than that provided by default in property groups

We can't use the <HLQ> parameter in other fields that provided by default in property groups
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Replace Term

With RDz there are 2 options to replace term. If you have a fix right border the replace trucates the term - this is not what the developer wants. If you remove the right border, the replace works, but the comment is moved. This is also not what t...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Smart Storage handling in RDz WSDL template generator

using the top-down webassist in RDz, we ran into a storage problem, with a WSDL with 100 operations. All the generated books were in the working storage area.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

character ? missing in French Host Emulator

Under RDz, when using the Host Emulator to connect to z/OS, it is not possible to enter the character ? that is on key SHIFT+$ on French keyboard. When entering SHIFT+$ no character is sent to the host.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Not under consideration

Web Services Top Down support for IMS

RDz and IMS web services (Customer Unicredit wants IMS top-down for COBOL)Customer wants to invoke an external ws via a Synch Callout from an IMS application. It seems that RDz doesn't allow the top-down approach to generate from a given wsdl the ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Generate JCL based on the subsystem version

Similar to the capability to specify which CICS Transaction Server version is used for syntax checking, use this information to generate the appropriate steplib, etc. for the compilation, etc.This capability should not be restricted to the CICS Tr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

enable the additional attributes for generated XML schema using EST (IMS SOAP G/W)

We require that RD/z EST for IMS Bottom-up tool can add the XML schema's attribute generated from copybook using wizard option. Candidate XML's schema's attribute are the following.- change minOccurs="N" to minOccurs="0", add default="xx" as defau...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

Extend Menu Manager to all any selected properties for the associated entry to be passed as variable

Currently only a limited number of predefined variables (such as $fullname) can be specified as parameter.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

MFS editor, changes in design view should be propagated in source view

A MFS format definition contains 4 parts: . EQU . format (FMT) . input msg . output msg So far, changing a field's length from the Design view changes the field's length in the format (FMT) only, not in the input or output msgs. The changes should...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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