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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Save Menu Manager variables

When displaying a menu window. It displays the default values that we defined (Windows -> Preferences -> Menu Manager -> Actions and Menus). Is there a way to remember the user last choice? So when I set a library name, it will be display...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Implement way to set CICS/DB2 check in Prop Group temporary on remote syntax check

For us as customer it's not possible to distinguish between modules with/without CICS or DB2 to select the correct property group with/without CICS or DB2. This means, the remote syntax check will always find issues in COBOL sources with EXEC SQL ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IDz Dead Code functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the Identify Unreachable Code functionality is not available for PL/I. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall M...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

zUNIT: add optional field that the user would type in the CICS region for Recording Service

Now that CICS support is implementing the CICS Recording Service on other CICS regions I noticed that IDZ has no way of differentiating which URL is pointing to which CICS region. The only identifier is the port number but there’s no way to know w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

User build option to be visible for second program as project default for 1st program and wizard to be improved

It will reduce the developer time for userbuild. I have added all description as attached the screen and shot. Kindly refer the ticket no TS009289506 if any additional questions
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

PL/I-Editor Automatically clear Identifications when you would like to format a source

At the moment you can't format a source when you have pre-processor information for that source available. So you need to clear all identifications manually in order to run the formatter. The formatter is very important for us because eg we do all...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Check-box Remoter Error List

Regarding to a request TS003124951 i asked if ther was some checkbox to check so when run Remote Syntax Error of a cobolprogram the Remote error list could be filled with warnings and errors.If it is not the current active view this could be confu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration