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Remove the dependency between PCOMM path variable and using of MSCAPI in RDz

RDz support using MSCAPI for Host emulator connection since 8.5.1.4 client verison. However this has conflict with the PCOMM (Personal Communication) path enviornment variables (e.g. C:\Program Files\IBM\Personal Communications). The previously re...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

Enhancement that will fix the source code display in zUnit Debug

To make enhancement that will fix the source code display in zUnit debug (now it display assembler code) and also should be able to detour the stop in comment lines issue.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

RDz DB2 10/11 support of Timestamp precision

RDz's COBOL Editor does not know the DB2 10/11 syntaks for DCLGEN constructs for Timestamp with precision. DB2 10 introduced TIMESTAMP with the precision from 0 - 12, where the default is 6. The COBOL editor report errors when precision is declare...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

zUnit - KSDS (VSAM) Support

zUnit not supports "ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED" (KSDS). Would like to request to make available this option as well, other wise we cant use this. Most of our programs are using VSAM (KSDS).
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

DB2 support in zUnit

In our organization, we are planning to rollout CICD concept and for this we need to establish the culture to use "zUnit" for mainframe application as well. We could say that more than 95% of programs are using DB2 & VSAM files. So we need to ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Support for MQ Explorer in RDz

From the standpoint of having one IDE where all interfaces are available and developers no longer need to switch from product to product we would like to have MQ Explorer as a plugin within RDz.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

Adding filter groups to the remote system explorer view

It would be nice if you could add an additional level to the tree in the remote system explorer view. A user generated grouping of filters. I use filters to collect all the datasets I need for a specific task or project. That could result in a ver...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Delivered

need a variable in RTC user build indicating that JCL has been generated from user build

Like RTC has the property ${personalBuild} to indicate that the build is a personal build, customer needs a similar property to indicate that the build is a user build.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

need support in RTC user build for ${buildResultUUID} and ${personalBuild}

The supported properties are documented at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_9.1.1/com.ibm.rational.rtc.rdz.doc/topics/rdzrtcz_int_user_build_jazzprops.html Customer also needs ${buildResultUUID} and ${personalBuild} Also need @...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz - Need a way to specify Property Group "complete" Special Link instructions for SYSLIN

Within RDz Property Group, you are currently able to specify "special link instructions" but when the "LINK" step JCL is created, the LINK SYSLIN always has INCLUDE OBJ0000 included first, prior to your "special instructions". If you require somet...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered