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IDz - Extending JCL Property Group

IDz works with Property Groups in order to be able to detect for instance copybooks. This should be enhanced for JCL members so we can use the include. This does work for remote members, but we need it as well for elements in the Project Explorer,...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Parenthesis are not highlighted in IDz COBOL editor (compared to TSO)

In TSO (ISPF editor), when parenthesis number is not rational (insufficient or in excess), the problematic parenthesis is highlighted in pink. In IDz (COBOL editor), there is no highlighted for this exact same problem. We wish we can have a clear ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

LPEX / Eclipse : Enable context-sensitive help for C/C++ and assembler

The functionality is already present for Cobol and PL/I - it seems logical to also have it for C/C++ and assembler (at least for the IBM macros, but would certainly be cool for individual instructions too). In a nutshell, place cursor on "printf",...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Jira Integration in IDz

I would like to have an integration of Atlassian Jira within the IDE (thus Eclipse - please make it available in all your Eclipse based IDEs).Having this, I would be able to connect the ID of a Jira artifact into the user SCM sofware solution.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

IDz DBB user build discovers dependencies only for COBOL and PLI

IDz tool will not auto select the Maclib (copybook library) for ALC modules when trying to run the DBB user build wizard setup. We have to manually select it each time to start the DBB configuration. (Works for cobol but no for ALC)
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Code folding in Cobol Editor

Provide code folding feature in the cobol editor. This means there is an ability to hide from view all the statements between an IF and its matching END-IF or ELSE as the case maybe. Also could apply to EVALUATE/WHEN.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Z/OS Automated Unit testing -Automatically suppressing CRRDG7033E while generating code coverage report

Multiple pop up windows open with the following error "CRRDG7033E Results were not produced because no debug information was contained in the modules or all modules were excluded." while generating code coverage reports. The error shows up even wi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Future consideration

Enhance the DBB User Build Information popup

When a user build finishes, IDz shows a popup window which states: "DBB User Build is complete for <name-of-the-source-file> Click Details to see the complete build log." This information doesn't provide any valuable information to the devel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration