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IBM Developer for z/OS

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After changing file permissions still unable to access file via RSE connection.

Through RSE connections one cannot gain access to a file where permissions were updated until a disconnect/reconnect happens.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Endevor, Access to the Derived and Input (BoM) object from CARMA

The ability to view the result, in terms of resulting objects from an Endevor build is currently available from the the 3270 interface.For those users using the Quick Edit functionality, it is known as the LO function (List Output)At the same time...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Delivered

Test RDz v9.5.1 for z/OS 2.3 compatibility

Customer is planning to install z/OS 2.3 and has inquired if RDZv9.5.1 were compatible with z/OS 2.3. Customer understands that RDZv9.5.1 has not been tested with z/OS 2.3 and therefore is not currently considered compatible with z/OS 2.3.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

menue manager invocation status until result is sent back, is missing for users

After invoking an action through menu manager, the user does not get any feedback if IDz accepted the request and tends to invoke the same action twice. We need a way to inform user that the request is in progress.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RDZ - Sum bytes in the area for Editor Cobol and LPEX

We need to know if it's possible totalize the selected bytes so that the total sum is visible and consider at the request when the variables are PIC S9(03) COMP-3. This option is very important for the usability of the tool here the bank.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

JES editlike experience

It would be nice if the JES job shown in the edit area had some functionality.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

PL/I-Editor Code Folding

We would like to have the option of Code Folding within the PL/I-Editor. When you have a huge source with many looping and conditional statements code folding would help in order to find the correct blocks within the source or to hide some complex...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

Generic attributes

Generic attributes are not supported in RDz PL/I Editor.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

RDz Code Review - Baseline capability is needed with automated code review so that 'legacy code' errors can be ignored.

RDz Code Review - Baseline capability is needed with automated code review so that 'legacy code' errors can be ignored.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Warning requested when a PERFORM THRU is generated

Within the Cobol editor, PERFORM THRU is applied by default when an "extract paragraph" is made from contextual menu (right click > refactor > extract paragraph).
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered