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    Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

    Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

    JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

    Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

    zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

    We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

    Alternative schema to be searched in place of the SYSIBM schema

    The Catalog navigation function requires read access to several Db2 system catalog tables. In some cases, system administrators deliberately do not grant access to SYSIBM. Instead, a set of views, or copies of the system catalog tables are in an a...
    8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

    Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

    IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

    shortcut menu manager

    i implemented actions in the menu manager and i need run options to include shortcut for exemple CTR+SHIFT+2 for the action
    over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    IDz to support BMS Map Subfields.

    Need IDz to be able to support the ability to have subfields like in SDF. We have many maps today that use the subfields within SDF.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

    IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

    Single Sign on with RTC and IDz

    We use Rational Team Concert and IBM Developer for z.Users must logon in both Systems. Passwort in IDz cannot be stored because of security.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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