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PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Make Temp datasets configurable

Hi, We found that while copying load modules from one PDS to another, IBM uses a standard temporary dataset format which is against our shop SMS rules. We found that there isn't a way to override the second and third nodes to confirm with inhouse ...
17 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Performance improvements reuested when using the built in Remote Connection Emulator under IDz 16.0.2

Compared to standalone host connection emulator software like PCOMM, the built in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) under IDz 16.02 is slower in performance when navigating ISPF screens and entering commands. The usability of the RCE could be impro...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

IDz DB2 Tooling. Increase the DDL text limitation when viewing Native Stored Procedures DDL source in IDz. Currently capped at 32K bytes.

In order for IDZ 16.0.4 or greater to be an effective development tools for z/OS DB2 Native stored procedures, it must be able to process NSPs with DDL greater than 32K. We have many if not most NSPs falling into this category The following error ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Future consideration

Full keyboard mapping in RCE

This idea comes from TS014282019. In the IDz 15.0.3 the host emulator supported the full keyboard mapping. For example, there are two enter keys in full keyboard, our devs would like to map the second enter key to a different function. This functi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adding ability of Key Mapping to Remote Connection Emulator

Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) is replacing Host Connection Emulator (HCE) from IDz 16 and onwards. In the old HCE we had the ability of mapping any key (or combination of keys) in the keyboard to any command. In the new RCE - key mapping is res...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

LPEX EDITOR command line should also support hex value search similar to tso 3.4 ex f x'0D'

LPEX EDITOR command line should also support hex value search similar to tso 3.4 ex f x'0D' . Please refer IBM case TS016750744.
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review