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Cobol Editor BIDI support

Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Under review

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under 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...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Under review

IBM DB2 QMF object update

* QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
25 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

update IBM Workload Scheduler applications

* IzWS (OPC) update *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Using BATL files, create/update OPC applications The git repo contains a BATL file for each OPC applications. The module inserts them into a JOB which is using WAPL com...
25 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

GDG creation and update

* GDG creation * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Create GDG using a yml artifact. The parameters in the yml is used to create and submit a job. test1.gdg __base: ____name: CDRD.DATA.TEST1 ____limit: 15 ____catalog: VC...
25 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration