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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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 9 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

HCE to show the TLS connection level

IDz 14.1 Host Connection Emulator (HCE) should show the TLS security level (1.0 or 1.2) used to established the connection
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 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

Combine COBOL outline view and preprocessor integration

The COBOL outline view is based on the content of the editor and not on the changes made by the preprocessor integration. That results in a very confusing and long outline view when (for example) the DIVISION statements are generated by the prepro...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Provide a user ID variable support for MVS Filter strings similar to JES

Currently, our shop sets up multiple filters prefixed by RACF user ID so they are specific to the datasets they create for their own personal dataset members. The filter string for JES is already support &USERID so if they copied a filter it d...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

DBB User build - provide a very simple workflow (no wizard)

DBB User build has quite a few fields that need to be populated on each program. But the values are mostly always the same in the context of the work of a developer. All of these values should have default values that can be set once, for example ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Wazi Developer for Eclipse autodetect to determine file type

See Case TS004142893 issue of opening a program within a program and use autodetect to determine the file type?
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Delivered

Support new JCL from z/OS V2R1

JCL Editor breaks on z/OS V2R1 features like EXPORT SYMLIST Please see following JCL: //MKAIQM JOB 7904,KAISER,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K,CLASS=A, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=512M // EXPORT SYMLIST=(YEAR,USER,QMDIR,QMFILE,QMDSN) // SET YEAR='2015'...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered