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automatic recall of migrated datasets when using zUnit

zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

IDz Cobol editor to have ability to open files from copybook declaration

File declaration in the copybook is requested to be hyperlinked to allow easy and direct access to the output or input datasets.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

provide patched Eclipse source bundles

IDz 14 is based on Eclipse 4.4.2, but IBM patched the Eclipse platform bundles, therefore the official Eclipse source bundles do not match the Eclipse binary bundles used by IDz 14.This RFE is to ask IBM to provide the source bundles corresponding...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Mark occurrences of variables also on variable copy statements

IDz doesn't mark occurrences, when the variable is used as replacement in a COPY/REPLACE statement in the procedure division. Please see the attachment. Especially chapter 3
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Endevor quick edit - look alike

"Quick Edit. I am not sure how others are seeing quick edit work. Here are my thoughts. What goes on behind the covers doesn't matter. What I want to see is a stream lined process. Pulling in default values from the existing members is critical fo...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Adding a timeout feature in IDz

We have developers reporting that when a program is in edit mode then the component will show up as locked. There are several times, devs forgot to close the programs and the releases cannot be deployed unless the devs go in IDz and close the prog...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Support for REXX development

Add full support for the REXX language in RDz including content assist, source formatting, and syntax checking.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

IDz Table views to have filters directly in column and provide search for tables

Direct filters on columns will provide quick results which sometimes is what's only needed. Same with the ability to quickly search a Table.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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