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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Preprocessing with UTF-8 characters

Parsing Programs with UTF-8 characters causes us Problems with our preprocessor functions
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for Developer for System z

Full support for Kerberos as an authentication method in IDz, Developer for System z.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Double click on a Special Name should show markers where the special name is being used

When you double click on a variable in a program, IDz shows you where it is used in the program (small yellow rectangles next to the right hand scrollbar - see attachment 1). But when you double click on a Special Name it doesn't show you where it...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IDz - Deselection of common routines in 'Program Control Flow'

Hello In the IDz test version 14.2.3.x or 15.0.x, there are multiple flow lines represented for a common routines where ever it is referred through. As a result, program control graphical view becomes unreadable and highly clustered. It's good hav...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Deinstallation of IBM Installaion Manager products doesn't clean up the package group directories

After deinstalloation of IBM Installaion Manager products, the package group directories are not deleted. This is the same behaviour with all Software installed by Installation Manager and therefore seems to be a Problem with the Installation Mana...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDz LPEX ISPF Editor SORT priority alpha vs numeric order incorrectly sorts numeric first

Rational Developer for System z LPEX ISPF Editor SORT priority alpha vs numeric order incorrectly sorts numeric first Input:5 2 alternate8 0 binaryZ 0 cola8 0 decimal3 2 entrylevel5 1 flash6 0 grafics2 0 helium3 1 integer5 3 joinme Boundary 1 100S...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

COBOL editor should automatically create reference

It could by useful if COBOL editor automatically create reference. Perhaps IDZ could ask the PIC clause (PIC X(10), PIC S9(3) COMP, …) and the section (WORKING, LINKAGE) and add it at the end of this section.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

CARMA dialogs "Add" should retain "Bypass generate processor" choose

CARMA dialogs "Add/Update" should retain "Bypass generate processor" choose. I added a screenshot (see uploaded file Capture1.jpg).
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Software Analysis reports by file instead of by rule

Within the Client and also in host, RDZ software analysis report always lists violations by rule. A per program order would make reports easier to read - for both client and batch invocations.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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