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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...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

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...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Support for input field in Menu Manager dialog for password type fieles

Customer needs to enter a password in the Menu manager dialog to be passed to REXX program, and need this field hidden ( password Type input field) on the screen.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Improve dark mode

It's useful for all developers that love dark mode (my self included) - it is also more energy-efficient! But the current state of your dark mode option is still missing a lot :( Some issues I have found with dark mode: 1. The text in the search-f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

IDz: Allow IDZ user build variables to be generated from RTC language definition/translator instead of manually via IDz Prefs

In an IDz user build, DDNAMEs using variables as STEP RCs in a build have to be defined manually in the context of the z/os project.Normally, the STEPS and initBuild are defined as properties of the language definition by navigating to IDz Window/...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

JMR function is not available in RDz

JMR function which will display all the previous runs(days,months, years) of production jobs is not available in RDz
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Implement binary copy/paste in PL/I and COBOL editors

Allowing in edition the copy-cut/paste of binary characters in COBOL and PL/I editors
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Limit COBOL content assist proposals by user defined type

IDz code assistant proposal includes all declared literals while some of them may not be applicable in the context depending on their type.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing

Artificial intelligence application for DevOps entire software development evaluation ,software testing etc provide patent right and royalty reward (provide 50% of profit only in my name) only in my name and donot include any external elements in ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

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