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Support Endevor v19 on CARMA plugin

We saw in the below documentation that the supported Endevor version under IDZ v16 CARMA plugin is 16/17/18: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=workspace-from-ca-endevor-software-change-manager-scm " Supported Releases of CA ...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

Add instream support for procedures called from JCL, and STEPLIB support

Competitor's testing products utilize process to make changes to execution JCL that include making the impacted PROC instream. This allows for PGM= substitution to their monitoring program, modifying PARM statement if required, modifying existing ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

IDz v14.2.2 does not notification developers about code change in Git remote branch

Customer's original request: IDz v14.2.2 is not showing any notifications in the Git perspective when there are changes on the Git Bitbucket server. This caused developers to use older version of code base. Customer has been using Sourcetree till ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for IDz - Prompt to Continue before Timeout

The IDz enhancement we are requesting is to add a new IDz client side prompt that will allow the user to elect to maintain their session with the IDz host (RSE daemon) even if the RSE idle client timeout period has been reached. This request is re...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

zUnit: Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Future consideration

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Create Rule for JCL components for JCL files and Copybook components for Copybook files

The java package for creating COBOL custom rules under IDZ Software Analyzer only support cobol components. An interface is created for Copybook components but no class is created for Copybook components. This is similar to the case for JCL compon...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration