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RDz, copy from FileManager on mainframe to Excel on local

Today, when a customer does a copy/paste from mainframe, the raw data are copied. The customer is using File Manager with the Eclipse plug-in. The FM copy function has only the mainframe as target. The RDz copy function does not take the FM format...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Builder : better support of Spuffi editing

When editing an SQL file coming from a PDS (LRECL 80) with SQL and XQuery Editor, there is no message preventing you that you exceed the column 80.It could be useful to set a preferences to limit to a specific size, to show a limit line, maybe to ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Support migration for CA-Disk

I am opening this request for enhancement on behalf of my customer "Insurance Services Office":In RDz, migrating a data set from CA is currently not supported.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

(in the Data Tools) Get rid of Return All Rows - or allow sites to remove via Preferences

In the Data Tools - the "Return all rows" option is dangerous, for z/OS shops. This is because - typically, z/OS DB2 databases measure in the 10's of thousands to low million rows. Often with 100s of columns. Return all rows does not have a Prefer...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Need LPEX/ISPF F5/F6 combination to behave like TSO

When I use F5/F6 on ISPF, the F5 finds an occurence, and F6 changes that (found) occurence. In RDz F5 finds an occurence, but pressing F6 finds and changes the NEXT occurence - not the current occurence.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RD/z workspace is destroyed when ctrl-alt-del

Sometimes RD/z Windows client tries to do something that causes a hang with an hour-glass cursor. It may remain an hour-glass for a few minutes or forever. Customers then do ctrl-alt-del to break out of it. There is a good chance that they have ju...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Enable HEX find for EBCDIC binary values in LPEX

The overwhelming % of RDz users edit with LPEX - because it emulates ISPF - and ISPF is necessary as a transition to the GUI experience. Currently Ctrl+F Find (or Picture string Find) with Regular Expressions finds only hex values in ASCII. The tr...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor REXX Highlighting for functions is wrong

LPEX marks user-written procedure/functions in REXX the same way like keywords and built-in functions. This should not happen. Following solution proposal:All self-defined functions will be highlighted by a different highlight option and all built...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

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.
over 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...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration