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zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Enhance the setting UI of Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

Now there are 2 place that can configure the connection parameters (host / port, etc) in the RCE - the "Host properties" tab at the bottom - the "Session properties" button on the upper right corner Users are always getting confused for how / wher...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Under review

Rearrange the Configure User Build views

The Configure User Build dialog has the following pages: General information File attributes Log File Script parameters Additonal Files to Load Options 2 and 3 only have to be specified once but we never change them post the initial configuration....
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support for more advanced JCL parsing when recording

When recording a testcase for zUnit the JCL isn't parsed correctly when the original JCL contains a SYSTIN DD with a dataset leaving the user to do some (not always obvious) manual editing of the JCL before being able to do a record. To improve th...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Planned for future release

Screen size in the Remote Connection Emulator

In the new IDz ver 16, you cannot have a screen size of 62x160 in the Remote Connection Emulator. This is something we use and would be great to have.
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Functionality already exists

Configuration of DBB in IDz similar to ‘zapp.yaml’ in VSCode.

We would like to use a defined ‘zapp.yaml’ in IDz as it is configured in VSCode. So it would be much easier for the user to use the build. It is quite complicated to setup the user build for a normal host user. And it would be perfect to let the d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Vertical display of Program Control Flow diagram

Hello IBM, I'd like to display the result of the Program Control Flow vertically from top to bottom because this is more usable for exports in other documents and it saves space. (long section names steal place in a horizontal display). Thx Michael
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration