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Retrieve Data Set - allow us to click ok - not consistent

When building a retrieved data set you have to press enter. This is not consistent with the rest of the product. You should allow us to select the ok.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide a row/column filter for the Table Editor in the Data Perspective

Most user testing DB2 tables contain well over 100,000 rows, and often 40 --> 200 columns. This make sthe Table Editor very much less useful. Many companies have clamored for this - as they feel the Data Perspective is a very useful part of RDz...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Equivalent of DTU option 8 in RDz

Today, to add the CEEOPTS in a JCL from any RDz editor, you need to create a snippet with a hard coded IP address. We want something like the DTU option 8 on the mainframe. Select Submit with Debug (new right click option on the member name). Then...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

RAA - DELETION OF CICS DATA STORES

A CICS file was accidetnally defined to a region in RAA. There is no option to delete as there is to delete a program, copy member, etc... It is not user friendly to delete an entire CICS region defined in RAA and redefine it to remove a resource.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

DB2 - allow us to start the search in middle of file or key

Allow us to be able to change the starting search on a DB2 file. Today we are limited to the max number of records to search. It would be nice to beable to start in the middle or towards the ends so that we can get to all records on the DB2 file.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Convert tab to x'05' when copying data from notepad to LPEX editor

When we copy some statements in word document or notepad to the LPEX editor which contains some "tab", it will become the x'05' characters once saving it to host. It will lead to syntax error and hard to identify the problem. Could LPEX editor be ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

JCL in EDIT

I am edit on a jcl, I select a dsname then a right click: I can open him in a standard editor, but not in FileManager
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support nested WSDL files for IMS Top-Down Development

The ability for 1 WSDL to import another WSDL when submitted to the RDz xsebatch build process used for the IMS Top Down developement scenario. Potentially the imported WSDL may import another WSDL. This is a nested WSDL concept similiar to nested...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

error messages or reason why - problem I have seen is with endevor

When pulling files from endevor or updating files we get error without any explanation. thought I alreay entered this but can't find it in my list of RFE. If douple, sorry.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: You Can't unassociate a PDS member once associated to CARMA

RDz CARMA user can associate a PDS member/Element to CARMA but they do not have the ability to un-associate PDS member/element from CARMA.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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