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Provide Error Feedback for Remote RDz Compiles

In RDz z/OS Projects Perspective when setting up a Property Group there is a compile option box to "Support Error Feedback". This allows compiler error messages to be displayed in the RDz Remote Error List. This option currently only works for loc...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Expose new CICS Web assistants options in RDz EST UI

Need to expose new options of the CICS Web assistants in RDz UI :the top-down tooling in RDz is closely derived from the DFHWS2LS tool from CICS. In CICS TS V5.1 DFHWS2LS is enhanced with a new configuration parameter called 'MAPPING-OVERRIDES'. I...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

RDz: Bi-directional (BiDi) text is not taken into account in job output.

In RDz, use of Bi-Directional (BiDi) set of characters is not possible in the Job output. (Messages are returned from left to right while written right to left).
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

z/OS RDz v9.0 Java v7.0 64-bit support needed

In order to address an issue with memory constraints with RDz v9.0, Java v7.0 64-bit was needed.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Configurable limit to array positions shown in debug

When you are using Debug Tool from RDz, it's often a problem when inspecting an program structure containing arrays. For instance when expanding the array (if the array is large enough) it will occupy the entire screen in the vertical direction.Th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

Support RTL text direction in LPEX comments

NO align right when writing an Hebrew textthis feature is ctucial when writing a hebrew text mixed with english, which is mosy common by hebrew MF developers
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

SGW-Enterprise WSDL first approach: Support data compression between ICON and IMS

We have now over 400 "IMS SGW Enterprise" based web services in place. All these web services are based on "WSDL first" approach. Especially with large IMS response messages we have bad response time in our setup with IMS-shared queues (20km dista...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Certificate Filter

an extra option in the Preferences page where the user can specify the extra filter criteria for the correct certification key usage.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Simplify the process for RDz v9 zUNIT to generate the runner configuration

In RDz v9, we can right click a load module and select zUnit to generate runner configuration file (.azucfg). However, it requires users to prealloate a PDS which is in VBA with LRECL 16383. This is not easy to locate the information and it should...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Custom skipping preprocessor first matching characters

To support a maximum number of legacy Cobol preprocessors, this property allows to define which lines of code should be considered as a preprocessing line and so should be ignored when parsing the Cobol source code. For example, if this property i...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered