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    IDz V16.0.1 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator

    IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator : IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator - ex use of letters is not available (Ctrl+Shift+Z). This can be included.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Consistent variables names for building blocks for Ansible and Python translator

    The configuration of the existing building blocks make use of different variable names (depending on the building block). This should be consolidated by deprecating the old names and move to consistent variable names across both translators.
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    Improve documentation of data available in jinja2 templates

    We use jinja2 templates to generate JCL submited by job_submit templates. We often need to loop trough the artifacts and generate jcl. For us it is not clear what data wazi provides that can we can exploit in the templates. there is a note on this...
    5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    Load evidences into a Database

    In our environment we deploy to multiple sysplexes. We would like to store the evidence files in a central databse (e.g. DB2)We would like to get an option to load the evidence files into a database so that we can centrally query all deployments. ...
    5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

    When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

    Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

    One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

    When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Future consideration

    User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

    For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Provide support to switch UID in zExplorers/iDZ

    Hello, under zOS we more and more have to deal with USS services and zFS-files. As a zOS systems-programmer not everybody knows in deep the possbilities and features of USS. Often we need to switch to UID 0 to do specific file-changes and this is ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration

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