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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Keep configuration of a userbuild under IDZ in Preferences

The configuration of a userbuild under IDZ should be kept in the preferences. These parameters are not often modified but they must be re-entered regularly for each new project.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Request IDz Editor to support(edit) SO/SI only(no DBCS) character in file.

When an z/OS memberinclude SI/SO only fieald, IDz Editor open read only mode. There'are many customer's case that SO/SI only(no DBCS) character exists. If IDz editor's Operability is same as ISPF editor,IDz will very useful many customers.(editabl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

zUnit: PLI-Support for specifying an expected value for a return statement such as RETURN(Expression)

The zUnit test case editor does not allow specifying an expected value for a return statement like RETURN(Expression).
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Expand the capabilities of the Push to Client Features supported in IBM Developer for z/OS

The following link lists the currently supported configuration items that are supported with the IDz Push to Client feature. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/15.0?topic=configuration-planning-push-client-environment This is a request ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Batch with 5 severity levels

In the IDz Client you have a choice to switch between 3 or 5 levels. This is under "Software Analyzer" -> "Severity Levels". But if you run a Batch Job you can not configure that you have 5 levels in the Rules Dataset.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

customizable values in the generated JCL

The size of the files for generation of JCL (e.g. for Compile Link Debug) is hard coded. That should be customizable.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 2 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL run in eclipse are limited to eclipse buffers, add option to send output to file outside of eclipse.

When running a DB2 Script, there is a limit for output records. If the number is to high we get a warning. give us the ability, instead of a number of records limit allow us to give a file name out on our drive where the file will be written direc...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 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.
over 8 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
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration