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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Find changed lines in LPEX EDITOR

LPEX EDITOR automatically flags changes lines with a purple mark on the left of the line.After making some changes to my program, I want to review all of them before saving the file.Is there a way to have a list of all the current changes, or at l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Add report tooling to provide list of users and daily usage of RDz

Add a reporting tool or spreadsheet or even just a table with a view that could be printed out that shows number of daily users, how long users are active, and usage for RDz.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow IDz RSE Retrieved data sets function to display dataset aliases the way ISPF 3.4 does.

In ISPF a 3.4 dataset search will list aliases and datasets. In RDz and IDZ the alias is not listed, a 0 found is returned. We are still using RSE server version 8.5 so this may have been resolved in new RSE server.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Customization of warning or error messages from different plugin tools

If any branch is deleted or access issue and ,we try to do Git pull on that branch in IDz using Egit ,It use to through the error 'problem occured' and after expanding the error it is giving the error message . Pulling 1 repository Remote origin ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add option to test cases and that should be automatically saved in workspace

Currently Debuggger is not integrated with ZUnit.If we need to create test cases for zUnit, we have to go out of our way from our daily routine and do a lot of painful preparation and do the test cases in such a way that zUnit will give some resul...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Secure RDz workspace in encrypted sandbox

There are several security concern from system Z customer view. The number 1 is the Foot Print issue. RDz store the download file without encryption. When exit workbench, the temporary file is even not deleted. If we can allocate a file spaces wit...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Adding a timeout feature in IDz

We have developers reporting that when a program is in edit mode then the component will show up as locked. There are several times, devs forgot to close the programs and the releases cannot be deployed unless the devs go in IDz and close the prog...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor "SURROUND" improvement

In Java, the "Surround" is performed regardless of how lines are markeda) You break the first line and the last one but the lines in between are fully marked b) You mark a full group of statements from first character of statement one to last char...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration