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IBM Developer for z/OS

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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

Addition to Personalize my Workspace in IDz

On a new page of the Personalize my Workspace wizard we would like the option to add User Specified Pages. There are some settings which we want to change when switching to a new workspace, not just for the SCLM plugin. We don't need an interface ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 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

Quick Fix not available in the RDz Editor for COBOL.

We try to use Quick Fix function to resolve warnings and errors in the editor but it's not available.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

PL/I compiler option LISTVIEW(SOURCE) support for code coverage

In Japan, there are many banking customer who are using PL/I. Such customer does not need to know a code coverage of inside PL/I macro, which is expanded at INCLUDE statement. Because many banking customer in Japan are using SAIL asset that is pro...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 2 Not under consideration

NullPointerException when using Refactor

When using a preprocessor and selecting "extract paragraph" from the refactor menu nothing happens. The menu just closes. And in the .log file a NullPointerException is listed. According to the case this is working as designed. This rfe is about t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

A "Replace All" action should be reverible with a single UNDO command

The Replace All actions treats each of its edits separately, so UNDO (Ctrl+Z) and REDO (Ctrl+Y) serially backs off or reapplies each edit. When the number of edits exceeds the size of the UNDO buffer, it becomes impossible to reverse a Replace All...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

More easily configure the configuration of a userbuild

The configuration of a userbuild under IDZ requires, among other things, access paths for the groovy script and for the workspace and the output space.These input fields should be optional and you should be able to type them or copy values into them.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Future consideration