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Ability to search/view all Endevor elements which are checked out to a UID

Please give users the ability to search on all Endevor elements which are currently checked out to their (or someone else's) user ID. Also, give users the ability to create a new CARMA view which shows which elements they currently have checked out.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 5 Delivered

Format functionnality limited with lines in debug

"Format" feature doesn't make correct indentation for lines in debug mode. Function design should have let the possibility to configure this need.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

Syntac check for PL/I include files

When a include members are opened in RDz (9.0.1.2 and 9.1) there are no syntax control at all. I do realize that a full control can't be done because there are no program. But just a standard syntax control for PLI should be there. You can check i...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

More dynamic behaviur of High Level Qualifier is required

When creating a SubProject in z/OS projects view, the properties configured in the project ( High Level Qualifier) is hardcoded. The <HLQ> should not be replaced with a fixed value ( in the case it hardcodes the Userid)
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Menu manager action to submit USS shell script

IDz currently doesn't have a menu manager action that allows users to support running USS shell scripts. Currently, we invoke OSHELL from TSO action which in turn runs our shell script to achieve this but the output is not available to view from I...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

RDz improvement of sort while populating Remote Systems MVS Files Filter "Show in Table"

Rational Developer for System z Improvement of sort while populating Remote Systems MVS Files Filter "Show in Table" During this process the user can observe the table while the rows are being populated. Some row field values (e.g. size) may show ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Possible to retrieve last X lines from JES instead of always from top

In preferences of RDz "Remote Systems" -> "z/OS" -> "JES" it's possible to choose the max number of lines to download without a warning, this is to protect RDz from a to large dataset in the editor. However often when datasets are larger it'...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Support of PL/I 4.4 LPEX or pli editors with RDZ 9.0

We are forced to upgrade to RDZ 9.0 and we need confirmation of support for PL/I 4.4, or, at least, tentative dates. Otherwise, we'll install PL/I 4.3 version, but we need to know which one we have to ask for.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Implementing a parameter to disable HRECALL and MIGRATE fonctions

Hi,In Remote systems view, when selecting a data set it is possible to easily execute a HMIGRATE operation. Unlike its TSO version, HMIG from RDz doesn't show used parameters. Same problem with HRECALL and consequences are even worst because you c...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Delivered

Copybook/syslib resolving broken due migrated library

Although provided in the property group, a library was not included during resolvment of copy libraries because it was migrated. Only non-migrated libraries have been resolved. My expectation is, that IDz recalls that library implicitely.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered