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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...
about 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
over 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...
over 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

TDAT file are dispyed with wrong hebrew

large program or SEQ file with many data elements, we can map the program to be a TDAT filethis gives us a table identation of the file and show us only some of the file content (accordingto preferences) and so helps with time needed to view the f...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

RDz user needs a way to compress PDS when they receive x37 abend trying to save member of PDS.

RDz user has modified a member of a host PDS and while saving member they received x37 abend (Out of space condition). From RDz client (Remote Systems view) they right-click on PDS and select 'Compress' from the context menu but the request fails ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Extend MFS Map Editor

The Map editor should be extended to allow input and output message automatically be added when a new field is inserted
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Improve performance of "Show in Table" view

When using "Show in Table" view to display z/OS artifacts (i.e. PDS members, dataset filters, job filters, etc), the rendering of data within SWT widgets performs sluggishly. The performance issue can also be noticed when scrolling between several...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered