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Present a more meaningful message when Remote Syntax Check is called with "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources.

Present the IDz user a more meaningful profesional message when calling Remote Syntax Check with shortcut "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources. Currently IDz users receive an unexpected and unclear technical exception error dialog when...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Toggle new Comment in JCL Editor

The function "Toggle Comment Continuation" (Ctrl+/)in the jcl editor inserts a character (*) on position 72 so that the comment can continue the next line (line beginning with // + one space) it works fine but it is not the recommended way for ins...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

To display properties of TAPE dataset

Unable to see properties for tape dataset
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz's COBOL Editor do not handle substrings correctly

We have the following scenario 01 TEXT PIC X(20). 01 CHAR PIC X(1). MOVE TEXT(1) TO CHAR. The MOVE statement is incorrect it SHOULD have beeen MOVE TEXT(1:1) TO CHAR The error was detected during the compileprocess, but should have been recognized...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Compatability Scan when migrating to new COBOL versions

We would like to have a batch interface to RDz which could scan our Cobol Source Libraries for incompatablity scenarios. we would like this feature to be able to run as a batch job on the host, so no download is required, but can be done purly in ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Regular expression support in filters

Need the ability to use regular expressions to build data set and job output filters.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Remote Resource API documentation

For the Remote Resource API there is currently a poor javadoc documentation and some incomplete samples available. We wish to have an improved separate documentation, about all interfaces and functionality which is available in the API and how it ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

RDz: You Can't unassociate a PDS member once associated to CARMA

RDz CARMA user can associate a PDS member/Element to CARMA but they do not have the ability to un-associate PDS member/element from CARMA.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

RDz does not allow copy with a function similar to ISPF "Replace like-named members" for PDS members.

Using RDz, the overwrite option not available for the member copy function when a user provides an alternate name and there is already a member with the alternate name existing in the PDS. They would like the same functionality as ISPF where it gi...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Support for more command thru COMMAND file for Remote Debugging

For remote debugging using IDz, we can use a COMMAND file, but the commands that can be executed before the program stop in debugger are limited. One of the reason we use the command file is to conditionally stop the program in the debugger based ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Not under consideration

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