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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

Provide support for PUT and GET statement

I am opening this RFE on behalf of the customer. They are requested that zUnit provide support for PUT and GET statement In essence, lift the limitation documented at this link https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_14.2.0/com.ibm.e...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under 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

When recording the zUnit test cases, the folder should be defaulted to JCL folder and not the PROGRAM folder

Since we have a JCL folder for zUnit, when ever we do start recording, it should point to JCL folder in default, which will help developer avoid manual selection and its time consuimg as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

zUnit test case prefix is actually not required and its creating some other issues

Test case perfix overridng other program test cases and its a very high potential issue
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

While creating the test case, after we selected "Multiple folder" option, IDZ need to set all the folder name automatically.

Eacn and every time, we need to select manually after we select the option "Multiple folder" and its very time consuming as well. If this is fixd, it would be very helpful to developers.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

COBOL Comparewith does not distinguish case differences in keywords and strings.

It would be advantageous if the COBOL Diff (compare with - each other) would distinguish case differences in places where they don't make a difference vs where they do make a difference.Example: * "MOVE" vs "move" does not make a difference at run...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add instream support for procedures called from JCL, and STEPLIB support

Competitor's testing products utilize process to make changes to execution JCL that include making the impacted PROC instream. This allows for PGM= substitution to their monitoring program, modifying PARM statement if required, modifying existing ...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

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