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The Start Flagging changed line in the COBOL Editor is not available

An important feature of LPEX is missing in the COBOL editor: The Start Flagging changed line is not available. We're using this functionality to automatically mark the first 6 columns of the COBOL program.We would need this functionality in the CO...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Choice of colors for fonts of characters in the emulator TSO

In the development teams of people have vision problems. Some colors are avoided.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

zUnit default creates an unnecessary TestCase

When you generate a Test Case there is always a TEST1 tase case created. This may seem logical but in cases where a recording will be made from CICS or IMS or batch, the default test case is a hindrance as the import will always create it's own te...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Change the way the Preprocessor works for PLI

The PL/I processors are working as designed in the product. But sometimes it takes more than 15(!) minutes in order to complete the work - this is for the daily work completely unacceptable. A feature would be needed to change the mechanism IDZ id...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Export the data in ‘Data Elements' window to spreadsheet.

If we can export this into a spreadsheet, we can perform the following: 1. Use the Data element analysis and filter on different columns. E.g. filter on unused (reference count zero) variables. 2. Sum up the pic clause in spread sheet – to count t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Display all executing JES jobs at top of filter

Today the executing jobs are at the bottom of filter display. We need a way to filter them to the top of the stack? a way of setting the display order for the different types of jobs (input jobs/running jobs/output jobs)
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

Code Review on zOS works but produces java exceptions and FrameworkEvent ERROR

Running Code Review AKGCR on zOS produces the following java exception as well as several Framework Event errors:!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERRORandJVMJZTK2999W jzos.jar build version '2.4.4 2012-07-27' does not match libjzos DLL build version '2.4.8...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Delivered

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Key Mapping augmentation

Please consider allowing for mapping of PF13 - PF24 in the RCE. Today, only PF1-PF12 are able to be mapped.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Delivered

RDz - Expanded COBOL source should support COPY ... REPLACING

In a source where no syntax errors are present, the expanded source does show errors. This is due to the fact that the COPY ... REPLACING statement is not fully executed. Only the original copybook is presented in the source, but the replacing act...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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