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Option to disable automatic file association.

Provide an option to disable the automatic file association that is done when opening a file that does not meet any z/OS File Mapping criteria. Since the PMR ID field above doesn't accept the new TS ID format, here it is: TS002715273
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage, but only uses it's default codepage setting (IBM-1047)You have to manually set the correct codepage within ID/z to view the USS-file in its proper format
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

LPEX JCL editor needs to have the same syntax support as JCL editor

LPEX JCL editor currently does not support JCL statements such as EXPORT and related keywords.IDz LPEX JCL editor does not recognize EXPORT statement and related keywords such as SYMBOLS etc.When JCL is coded with EXPORT statement, error - Incorre...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 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.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Call Perform Hierarchy from Program Control Flow

You show a Cobol programm in the Programm Control Flow View. Please add an entry to the contextmenu to link this view to the Perform Hierarchy View. Something like "show this section in the Perform Hierarchy". The two views show different but cloe...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 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"
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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