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Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 5 Future consideration

[IDz] Column no. in "Remote C/C++ editor"

Editing a COBOL program with "COBOL editor", colomn no is displayed above the fisrt line of code. But for C programs with "Remote C/C++ editor, column no is not displayed. However, this fonctionality is very useful and it would be nice to get it i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor: Behavior of Manage Sequence Numbers

When you activate function "Manage Sequence Numbers" you can insert characters in position 1 to 72 without shifting the sequence number (position 73 to 80) to the right.But when there is a character in position 72 and you continue to type you will...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Future consideration

Provide mechanism for setting BZUEXTRA with location of loadlib dataset (PDS) containing business load module

I am opening this RFE on behalf of customer (THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP) to improve zUnit automation and generation process. Currently, zUnit does not provide an easy method for specifying the loadlib dataset (PDS) containing the test target...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Future consideration

JSON Editor for IDz

Please add a JSON Editor (similar to the XML or SQL Editor)
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Preprocessor should always run for included COBOL copybooks

In our property groups we have self-written COBOL preprocessors defined. If there are preprocessor statements in included copybooks they will not get resolved and therefore editor shows errors in the code. This is not the expected behaviour. If on...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top .And to the favorit "bar"
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search. In critical in case we have 500+ elements for DBB

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search in situations where the customer needs to handle 500+ elements for DBB.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Future consideration

More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

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