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RDz's Menu Manager for Zions Bank Enhancement #4

Provide the ability to create a menu manager action selection by simply right clicking. Currently, customer defined menu manager actions only appear when right clicking on a data set member. This request is to remove this limitation.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

RDz's Menu Manager for Zions Bank Enhancement #3

3. JCL editor should recognize marked up JCL. ? not give errors.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz's Menu Manager Zions Bank Enhancement #2

2. Allow descriptions in the field title that would be different than what is used in the markup JCL.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz's Menu Manager for Zions Bank Enhancement #1

1. Giving me the ability to order the fields on the screen in a different order than alphabetic order.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Create member filter on partitioned datasets

We have huge datasets for copybooks (more than 25.000 copybooks in one dataset). It would be useful to have the ability to set a filter on a pds dataset (po and library), so that only this copybooks will shown, which are in the filter.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

new icon to jump to Host emulator quickly

now to open the Host emulator, customer must from the Remote System, right click on MVS Files --> Host Connection Emulator.Cust would like an icon to be added to the same view (like the one: Defining a connection to a remote system).
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Require ability to generate BMS DSECT on mainframe

Current BMS map editing capability supports generation of DSECT only within IDE. As this is a system-generated artifact, we would prefer to generate using a batch job on mainframe after saving map macros into source control system. We wish to keep...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz projects should not disappear from user workspace when resources are moved by the source management application

The following text is taken from the IBM answer in PMR 08907,300,624 Currently RDz has no way of knowing what happened to the files when they are moved by a different application and so we remove the reference from our subprojects. We can look int...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Provide a utility for conversion STL files to SAM files on PC environment.

Our customer requests a transfer function which converts STL files to SAM files and sends it to the HOST.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide create and compare functions for SAM files on PC environment.

1.Our customer's request is to allow the creation of the SAM files without developing the COBOL programs. They would simply specify some attributes and then generate the SAM file. 2.Our customer's request is to have a utility that compares of SAM ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration