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Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines.

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. Lines should automatically be wrapped to new lines starting with an *.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IDz Cobol Editor Column 1 to 6

In the Cobol Editor we want to have a special handling for column 1 to 6. 1) Every keystroke in column 1 to 6 should trade as entered in overwrite mode when you have any none whitespace char in column 7 to 72. 2) STRG-V with a Content fitting in c...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Mark occurrences of variables also on variable copy statements

IDz doesn't mark occurrences, when the variable is used as replacement in a COPY/REPLACE statement in the procedure division. Please see the attachment. Especially chapter 3
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Universal compare for many types of data

This RFE is about an universal compare. Something like "select first item" and "select second item" and when both are selected a compare is started comparing this two items.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Add report tooling to provide list of users and daily usage of RDz

Add a reporting tool or spreadsheet or even just a table with a view that could be printed out that shows number of daily users, how long users are active, and usage for RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Associate Complete Program available in COBOL editor

Associate Complete Program action is only available within the zOS Projects view. It should also be available within the editor. When selected the resources available to chose from should be from the RSE view and / or an API should be available to...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Remote Resource API fo Associate Program to a COPYBOOK

We need the ability to programmatically associate a Program to a COPYBOOK
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

zUnit to open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

IDz Retrive data set: allow wildcard in dataset name pattern on first qualifier

In ISPF (option 3.4 Dslist) we have the option to use wildcard on first qualifier Via IDz with the simular action 'Retreive data set' it is not possible to put a wildcard on the first qualifier In our shop with our naming convention we often use a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Find changed lines in LPEX EDITOR

LPEX EDITOR automatically flags changes lines with a purple mark on the left of the line.After making some changes to my program, I want to review all of them before saving the file.Is there a way to have a list of all the current changes, or at l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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