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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Editor should show bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead of scrolling and trying to notice.

Editor unused variable showed as little color on vertical screen which difficult to view. These are very small not easy to read or notice by developer, could you add result window bottom part of editor so one can navigate to line of code instead o...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support for EXPORT when parsing JCL in zUnit

When zUnit is pasring a JCL for recording which includes "EXPORT SYMLIST=*" you get an error "EQA3140E Invalid input: EXPORT" Since a lot of our existing JCLs are useing EXPORT it would be nice if supprt for it was included in zUnit instead of nee...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

COBOL Editor Toggle Comment

Toggle Comment function isn't able to return to previous state. Sample: If you use toggle comment (CTRL+/) for several marked lines and there was already a commented line in one of those lines, the result may not be the expected one. In that case,...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

Push to client support is needed for "local" z/OS project property groups

We are looking into introducing a “modern” toolchain including IDz – git – IBM DBB... and are now working with a POC.If the POC is successful it could in the future replace our existing “toolchain” that completely resides on z/OS.When we work with...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

ZUnit: Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Future consideration

Crosshair Cursor in Host Connection Emulator

Outside of RDz the ISPF interface we used had cross hairs on the cursor. In RDz the Host Connection Emulator does not have this functionality. I have had many requests for this to be added, so I am submitting an RFE
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Need IDz v16 to be installable with Installation Manager

IDz v16 is currently only installable via Eclipse P2: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6826641 Installation process of earlier versions was with Installation Manager and it would be easier to upgrade to v16 if IM was also available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Future consideration

Browsing the file is taking lot of time

Viewing and Browsing the sequencial file in RDz is taking lot of time.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration