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    Adding ability of Key Mapping to Remote Connection Emulator

    Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) is replacing Host Connection Emulator (HCE) from IDz 16 and onwards. In the old HCE we had the ability of mapping any key (or combination of keys) in the keyboard to any command. In the new RCE - key mapping is res...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

    Add local property groups to push to client

    Push to client is a great capability, however, it doesn't support local property groups. As a result, developers are unable to pull in their copybooks locally without manually defining the property group. We would like to see the export capability...
    8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Under review

    Full keyboard mapping in RCE

    This idea comes from TS014282019. In the IDz 15.0.3 the host emulator supported the full keyboard mapping. For example, there are two enter keys in full keyboard, our devs would like to map the second enter key to a different function. This functi...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Implement mfa support in rseapi without Zowe API Mediation Layer dependency.

    Rseapi requires today for zMFA support integration with additional service: Zowe API Mediation Layer. For that we should install additionally zowe product which seems unnecessary for that only reason. RACF today has both passticket and JWT support...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 1 Functionality already exists

    Need Remote Connection Emulator to support interface that is displayed in unformatted mode.

    The IDz v16 documentation indicates the following limitation for the Remote Connection Emulator: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=eclipse-connecting-zos-by-using-remote-connection-emulator#intro__limitations Remote Connecti...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 5 Future consideration

    We need to change Component Version Status on deploy, but do not allow user to change it

    We want each component version to be deployed to all environments: DEV, INT, AUS, PRO. Therefore, users cannot deploy to INT if the version was not previously deployed to DEV. To do that we use the version status. After deployment to DEV, we add a...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 2 Not under consideration

    Remote C/C++ Editor Development

    Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Submitted

    Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

    We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

    Possibility to define a property group by default

    Hi, It would be useful to have the option to define a property group by default for all imported z/OS projects. Today our developers must select each project and associate it with the property group that we want. An action that can be easily autom...
    9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

    Allow user builds to run inside a container

    With the introduction of native container images for z/OS (z/OS Container Platform) it only makes sense to package Java, DBB and the build scripts (zAppBuild or self-written) into an image to use it across different builds. Today, IDz supports sta...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

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