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IBM Developer for z/OS

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RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Secure RDz workspace in encrypted sandbox

There are several security concern from system Z customer view. The number 1 is the Foot Print issue. RDz store the download file without encryption. When exit workbench, the temporary file is even not deleted. If we can allocate a file spaces wit...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor "SURROUND" improvement

In Java, the "Surround" is performed regardless of how lines are markeda) You break the first line and the last one but the lines in between are fully marked b) You mark a full group of statements from first character of statement one to last char...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Add code review rules to IDZ to help with Syntax Check with migration to COBOL6

Add these 4 code review rules to IDZ to help with Syntax Check with migration to COBOL6:1. Zeroth occurrence is referred in the array2. Non numeric data to numeric fields. Move or condition check for Zone decimal fields against non-numeric data ca...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Allow key bindings for Menu Manager Actions

Many developers prefer to operate with as less mouse clicks as possible and prefer using the keyboard as much as possible. Now the Menu Manager actions are available only using the mouse or by slowly navigating with the cursor keys through the con...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Import Search-results which I have exported the day before when I have to work on a search-result-list more than one day.

Import Search-results which I have exported before so I can continue opening unchanged files from this list with a double click.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Implement way to set CICS/DB2 check in Prop Group temporary on remote syntax check

For us as customer it's not possible to distinguish between modules with/without CICS or DB2 to select the correct property group with/without CICS or DB2. This means, the remote syntax check will always find issues in COBOL sources with EXEC SQL ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Save Menu Manager variables

When displaying a menu window. It displays the default values that we defined (Windows -> Preferences -> Menu Manager -> Actions and Menus). Is there a way to remember the user last choice? So when I set a library name, it will be display...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration