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Display a pop-up when there's no affected property group to a JCL

A warning pop-up at the opening of a JCL by JCL Editor and before submitting it to affect a property group.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Facilitating audit.log browsing

As we handle numerous users, we need the audit .log to be more accessible especially when we need to deal with incidents and trace one or several users activity. Browsing it from PCOM USS is difficult and uncomfortable. Doing it through UNIX files...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

CARMA - message upon completion indicating that job has been completed successfully (or not)

When I submit job in CARMA, I am getting message 'Job has been submitted successfully'. There is no indication of job name/number. This is has been requested by my co-worker previously. This is request to display message that job has been complete...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 9 Delivered

Cobol editor - filter views

Add filter views that exist in the Lpex editor.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Clearing entries in the Retrieved Data Set list filter

After adding entries (datasets) to the Retrieved Data Sets filter in the Remote Systems view it would be very good to be able to clear selected datasets from that filter.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

zUnit: No manual input values ??can be entered for FILLER fields using the test case editor

If a field on level 05 has been defined with a FILLER, it is not possible to specify a return value in the Test Case Editor. Unfortunately, this then means that subsequent processes cannot run through successfully because the return value from the...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Copy local COBOL-Sources to z/OS: encoding-warning

We want to copy local COBOL-Sources (from Project-Explorer) to MVS-Files. The files don't contain any HEX-code or any unusual characters. The source isw copied correctly, but since IDz 14.2.2 there is an Encoding Warning: "The file contains charac...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

CARMA element history should show the source PDS library

CARMA element history not showing the source PDS library from where the element was moved to Endevor using CARMA. However in 3270 Endevor shows the PDS name form element moved for each version whne give line command M in front of element or partic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

MVS Subprojects: Other description for Delete and Remove

In the MVS subproject context menu there are 2 items, that sound similar and may lead to unintended deletion of MVS Data Sets. 1. Remove... -> means "remove from project"2. Delete... -> means "delete MVS remote data set" (or "delete member f...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

PLI Editor: Transfer of the PropertyGroup assignment when editing a include from a program

The assigned property group on a program is considered for an include in the hover, which applies compiler settings when displaying the include content. If you would like to edit this include via the hover via the icon "Edit Include File", then th...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered