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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Increase ease of use for updating SYSLIB in remote property group definitions

Currently the SYSLIB definition in property groups is presented as a single field containing several blank-separated data set names.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

zUnit RFE RBC: exclude fields (timestamp or others) at file compare

More details in the Case# TS002708463 Issues related to timestamp: - zUnit case always yield failed case when providing expected output files with timestamp content (file compare yield difference) – i.e. we have specific line or column where there...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

"Unreachable code" should not be considered as a syntax errors

If Identifity unreachable code is selected as "Warning" in Preferences / COBOL/ Real-time syntax checking, new errors appears in Software Analyzer. Theese errors could not be corrected while code is generated with RPP and it would be useful they d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

zUnit : allow ENTRY statement in BMP programs

When creating/modifying a test case with the dynamic test runner (BZUPLAY), make then ENTRY-statement supported.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Local preprocessors in IDz: provide a property for the location of the BuildOutput folder

We are developing sources in IDz in combination with GIT repositories that are cloned in the workspace. When you invoke the preprocessor (for PL/1) in your editor, then the tools automatically created a BuildOutput folder in the top-level our yo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Package Software Analyzer as OCI to use with zCX

We would like to be able to run Software Analyzer inside a container as part of our pipeline. It would likely be inside zCX but in the end it could also be on x86. This will ultimately depend on the build environment our customer uses. We are vers...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Add "Toggle Commnet" to REXX editor

In COBOL editor, in SQL editor, in LPEX editor there is an option to mark the line as comment. In REXX editor, there is no such option. It is very common to mark text and comment it. Or to comment a single line by right click and choose "Toggle Co...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration