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    Automated backup of IDz workspace

    Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancement for IDz - Prompt to Continue before Timeout

    The IDz enhancement we are requesting is to add a new IDz client side prompt that will allow the user to elect to maintain their session with the IDz host (RSE daemon) even if the RSE idle client timeout period has been reached. This request is re...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Bracket matching in COBOL

    Bracket matching is a feature in Eclipse that allows you to visually match opening brackets to closing brackets to get an even better overview about what parts of the code to belong to each other. That feature seems to be missing in the COBOL Edit...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

    IDz v14.2.2 does not notification developers about code change in Git remote branch

    Customer's original request: IDz v14.2.2 is not showing any notifications in the Git perspective when there are changes on the Git Bitbucket server. This caused developers to use older version of code base. Customer has been using Sourcetree till ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Moving Not responding message at top of window to status bar as in progress and not to freeze the window

    The IDZ 16.0.4 hanges in regular activities very randomly, while opening or comparing big size files in git repository. Please check the stack trace in the attached case.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

    zUnit: Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

    We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

    Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavors of SQL (T-SQL AND Oracle SQL). Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

    Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

    Display again the database filter menu like in v15

    In IDz v15, there were two context menus on database connection items like schema or stored procedure: Filter and Properties In v17, there is only Properties where filters can be set as well. A customer would like to see the Filter menu again.
    7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a way for Developer to input a 'hex' key in a search string.

    we have unique client identifiers which are 4 byte character representations of a 8 digit hex value. Eg. key_field_name : X'BE336244' This is the key in a wide number of tables and databases here, so is used quite commonly in queries. Issue When I...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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