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display latest Job spool

With introducing the default 'Active Jobs' filter in 9.5.1, it would be good to have an option to display the latest jobspool first (last 5000 lines of spool), instead of downloading the first 5000 lines from top of the spool file.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Highlight entry point of program control flow

Please highlight the entry point in the "program control flow" and "show Program to here" graphic like you do it in the "data flow".
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

RDz: Enable Autosave feature for Cobol/PL1/JCL Editor

RDz: Enable Autosave feature for Cobol/PL1/JCL Editor
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

RDz should allows users to dynamically allocate LRECL of temporary dataset for different types

In RDz the temporary datasets that are used for the edit are created by the end users' systems administrator by way of the setup that is in the startup task. So if user allocates a dataset to be, for example LRECL 80, all of the different types wo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Impossibility to select "?" in host emulator

When using the RDz "Host Emulator", it is impossible to select the character "?", hex code X'7B' : it is transformed with the ';' character on the displayed screen and substitued by the hexa code X'40' when sent to the host.A PMR N? 19275.999.706 ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Delivered

Copy a PDS by drag and drop

When we copy a sequential Dataset with a "drag and drop", everything is OK. When we try to copy a PDS by "drag and drop", we get an "invalid transfert operation" message : this action should work corectly.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

RDZ Datastudio Integration - Run SQL

DB2z supports ^= and ?= as not equal operands. So should the RDZ Datastudio Integration.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

zUnit support for Cobol Register Variables

Please refer to case TS003373117 for back ground and additional details for this RFE request. In case there is any question, please let me know.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 5 Delivered

Refresh ALL Copy Members

In RDz v9, the Local syntax check functionality was officially deprecated. IBM recommends using the real time syntax check instead. But the deprecated "Local syntax check" was useful to refresh modified dependencies: for example, if copybooks refe...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

Get RDz ACE parser extension point to allow RDAL to add support for custom attributes

To support certain Oracle SQL syntax we would like to get an extension point for custom COBOL data item attributes. The behavior would be, if the parser encounters an unrecognized attribute, the parser would ask extenders of the extension point wh...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered