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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Choice of colors for fonts of characters in the emulator TSO

In the development teams of people have vision problems. Some colors are avoided.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 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)
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 8 Delivered

increase -Xms512m -Xmx1536m -Xmnx64m value in eclipse.ini

the default values in eclipse.ini for-Xms512m-Xmx1536m-Xmnx64mare to low - every time the customer installs ID/z they need to increase them to be able to use ID/z with their growing size sources
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 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...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Allow export of z/OS Remote Search results which include the # of lines before & after current as specified in preferences

Currently (using RDz v9.1.1), the ability to specify the number of lines before and after current is enabled in preferences. When set, this works by hovering the mouse over the result in the search window and you will see the before/after lines as...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Need a way to set DYNAMNBR on user build JCL card

We need a way to automatically set parameter DYNAMNBR on the JCL jobcard generated by IDz for User build.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

RDz - new OFFSET feature request

Problem statement:Whenever the user/ developer needs to know the position and length of a particular variable in the record layout or temporary variable of a working storage section, they need to create a new copybook and open it in File Manager, ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

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