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JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Quick/Easy access to DB2 tables and queries

The new DB2 features within IDz are great, but a little cumbersome to use. In order to access tables and queries within the Remote Systems pane, I have to navigate through 5 layers of dropdown menus. I think a new, separate DB2 "view" would be rea...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 3 Future consideration

Maintain text formatting by copying/pasting from IDZ to external editor like WORD

We would like to retain the layout of the text of a COBOL program or a JCL when copying and pasting from COBOL editor IDZ to an external editor like WORD. Indeed, when opening a COBOL program (or JCL) with the COBOL editor (or JCL editor), which i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Need Remote Connection Emulator to support interface that is displayed in unformatted mode.

The IDz v16 documentation indicates the following limitation for the Remote Connection Emulator: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=eclipse-connecting-zos-by-using-remote-connection-emulator#intro__limitations Remote Connecti...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 5 Future consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

Refactoring for PLi modules

Right now IDz has functionality to identify unused variable in cobol modules. we need similar future for PLi modules as well. We have 1000s of PLi modules. we need similar functionalities like cobol modules
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 1 Future consideration

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Enhanced DBB User Build results view

Today, DBB User build is prompting the developer after the execution with a dialog to list the programs build log and the build report.When the developer closes the dialog, the information need to be retrieved from work directory on USS, which tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration