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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Allow reference to GDG Base in z/OS Projects

Currently it's only possible to add absolute GDG versions to a z/OS project, which is not very helpful at all. We need to add the GDG base (and all versions under the tree as in libraries with members) to z/OS projects
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Use of commands for Debug Tool through RDz

The scenario considered for this request is a developer using IBM Rational Developer for z Systems V9.5.1 (RDz), with Debug Tool for z/OS V13.1 (DT) to debug programs. In the debugging sessions, they need to execute some Debug Tool commands for sp...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Quick Reference Cards to ease searching for developers and to promote adoption of RDz

Quick Reference Cards are the way for developers to have a large part of the functionality at hand. It gives them the means to find RDz actions fast. An example of a Quick Reference Card can be found for the CICS Explorer. It is attached to this RFE.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

RDz' PL/I editor handling text entry skewed to or entered beyond col 73.

In Rdz the PL/I editoris is able to skew text or enter text beyond col 73, whereby it may be nessesary to cut and paste text beyond col 73, in oder to recover text.I would prefer the editor to be expanded also to facilitate options to switch text ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Support for older version of rocket git, specifically options in .gitattributes file

Please allow backward compatibility of IDz to work with options defined in older version of Rocket Git. Updates for tools can take a long time to complete and having newer versions IDz incompatible with specific versions of Rocket Git causes numer...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Allow on the fly changes to .gitattributes to take effect immediately

Please allow changes to .gitattributes files to take effect immediately. Currently, only a new clone of the repo will force IDz to update file tags, however, that is slow and cumbersome.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

PL/I-Editor - Copy/Paste Behaviour

When we have some lines with code starting on Column 1 we can select this lines and do an indent with the tab key. As you can see within the first video this indent operation will preserve Column 1 – so all characters beginning with Column 2 will ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

PL/I-Editor Right Margin Behaviour

Within the preferences of the PL/I-Editor you can enable “Disable Right Margin” and identifiy the Column for that margin (eg 73). With hat margin enabled we would like to see the same behaviour that you have with the LPEX-Editor – that means that ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Not under consideration

PLI Editor - "Color Highlightning" for Conditional and Looping Statements

Our Developers would like to have different colour codes within the PL/I-Editor for Code Nesting. This feature should work WITHOUT using the pre-processor! Let´s take the following example: DO K = 1 TO 10; SELECT (AVALUE); WHEN (‘0') IF BVALUE = C...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

PL/I-Editor Automatically clear Identifications when you would like to format a source

At the moment you can't format a source when you have pre-processor information for that source available. So you need to clear all identifications manually in order to run the formatter. The formatter is very important for us because eg we do all...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration