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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

Enhance COBOL Save Actions for Copybooks

Have a look at the Save Actions page for the COBOL editor: Under "Copybook Files" there are only 2 options (whitespace / format). This suggests, only these 2 options are configurable for copybooks. In reality also all settings under "Source Files"...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Change mfivarsubsaction in Menu Manger to not remember previous entries

We use Menu Manager for a lot of custom actions within IDz, including actions to interact with our SCM, Endevor. We give users the ability to right click a module in the Remote Systems view and select from a range of Endevor actions, like add to E...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

RSA - R?gle "V?rifier la valeur du SQLCODE apr?s un EXEC SQL" et utilisation des WHENEVER

Voir ticket TS002533616
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Future consideration

Whitespace compare editor ignore even inside language literal

See PMR for full description.<br />Basically the problem is that if a developer have added for instance a space inside a string, it will still be ignore by the compare editor, if there has been checked for ignore whitespace etc.<br />&...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Future consideration

zUnit Test case can handle DBCS data item names

COBOL programs using DBCS identifiers cannot be applied to current implementation of zUnit, because test case sheet created by zUnit cannot handles data item identifiers with DBCS characters.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Have real-time errors and warnings be placed into a tab/view for ease of viewing

We would like to have the errors and warnings that are produced during real-time syntax checking be placed into a tab/view such as the Remote Error List or the general Problems views. It would also be nice for the behaviour of items in the list to...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Context menu in IDz z/OS Project Explorer does not provide sufficient new artifact options

With IDz/RTC integration, if one wants to create a new zFolder or zFile in a zComponent project, there is not a menu option in the context menu for creating a new zFile or zFolder in the z/OS project explorer view (the typical view for editing cod...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 5 Future consideration

Real-time syntax check should flag obvious syntax errors

Currently, the real time syntax does not flag the error in the statement IF VAR1 > 0 ELSE <--- ADD 1 TO VAR1. The compiler does not accept this and issues messageIGYPS2079-S Expected a verb or "NEXT SENTENCE", but found "ELSE". The statement...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Future consideration