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Limit the " Collect Logs " to one day

Often, when we try to use the " Collect Logs " function, the process doesn't end due to a timeout an hour later : we have a big audit.log and the function is way too long. Is it possible to search in audit.log only the logs of the day to optimize ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Possibility to use "?" to add Member Mapping character by character

As it's possible on filters in MVS Files, we want the possibilty to add a member mapping in z/OS File System Mapping and filter character by character with "?" like for example "M??????" (mapping only for programs/copybooks on 7 characters beginin...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Program Control Flow Export as PNG

There is only a way to export the program control flow graphic as *.svg which is a vector format, that can't be used by many third party applications (like MS Office, RTF, Notes, Printing, ...) and always needs to be converted for other use. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

IDz missing Code Metrics functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the ability to run metrics on PL/I code is not available. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall Mainframe needs.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Need more documentation on how to create the input directory for the wazideploy-package command

wazideploy-package command can package a local directory but the documentation does say how to create this directory and what content it should have. The documentation indicates to use the groovy sample PackageBuildOutputs.groovy to create a tar f...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Delivered

Automating cached files cleaning

I would like to have the cached files deletion to be handled automatically within RDz client V9.5.1 to avoid any files crash behavior, probably due with cached files.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Possibilty to hide BADHEX messages in Audit logs

The possibility to hide the numerous BADHEX messages in audit.log
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

ZUnit: Separation of display outputs in the program and Runner:Replay outputs

Currently, the display outputs in the program are output together with the Runner:Replay outputs in a DD dataset.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Delivered

Cobol editor should prevent "save" action if data is entered after column 80

Customer is running RTC 602 and RDz 951. When a developer types Cobol source after column 80 with COBOL Editor, the save action and the RTC check-in/Deliver are permitted. When compiling with RTC, the translator ends in error with a truncation err...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Specify a custom Db2 for z/OS connection name

Currently, when a connection to a Db2 subsystem is created it only specifies the host name and LOCATION. From my experience, developers don't know the LOCATION but only the common name of the subsystem. It would be nice if developers could specify...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

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