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Cobol parser handles masked dots differently than compiler

Local Cobol Parser indicates that '.' is missing if a command leads on 2 lines but second line that contains '.' has been masked (by a 'D' or '*')This behaviour isn't the same has cobol compiler one which sees no error at all . We need to erase th...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

zUnit: Option to view Test cases in browse mode only

Our team needs the ability to review test cases and have the it protected against changes
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Software Analyzer -CAM-API: comment lines

Trying to implement COBOL-rules using the CAM-API I missed the possibility to handle comment lines by having a method like visit(CommentStmt n) with the opportunity to get the contents of a comment line.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

zUnit saves Test Case with a different name rather than Overwrite them

Currently when re-generating a Test Case the member name is reused.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Counting characters numbers in LPEX editor

Cannot count real byte numbers when the DBCS data is encoded by UTF-8 within LPEX editor.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

Highlight/remove unused variables and copybooks

Just like I can right click and select 'Source > Format' within RDz, it would be nice to have 'Source > Find unused variables/copybooks' or 'Source > Remove unused variables/copybooks'. Or we could have it the RAD/Java way, just underline...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

"Show Expanded Source" should also cater for "REPLACE" statement

The new feature "show expanded source" in RDz 9.1.1 client, should also cater for the COPY REPLACING statement in the program source, otherwise it will cause parse error after expanded the copybook, and lot of feature will then be disabled, e.g. p...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

COBOL Editor Double Click on spaces should mark all spaces

In the COBOL Editor a Double Click into spaces (between two non-space characters) should mark all those spaces so you can select and e.g. delete them.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

DBB User build - provide an API to trigger it through custom code

We don't like DBB user's build wizard and we have submitted several enhancements to make it better. We think that ultimately, having an option to control the user build triggering by ourselves would give us more freedom to implement rules for the ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

DBB User build - dependencies should be available whether people have opened the editor or not before

When the developer performs a user build, it is important to check "discover the dependencies to load", to make sure that all the needed source files are loaded on the mainframe. DBB user build is often used when a developer makes changes to a pro...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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