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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Two jobs in a JCL

When you have two JOB cards in a JCL they both submits. But in IDz you only are present with the last jobnumber.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 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

No Field properties in BMS mask editor (browse mode)

No Field properties in BMS mask editor (browse mode) . Problem description and business impact When open the BMS mask editor in browse mode, it is not possible to get the field properties for e.g. input fields. This is only possible, when open the...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Check-box Remoter Error List

Regarding to a request TS003124951 i asked if ther was some checkbox to check so when run Remote Syntax Error of a cobolprogram the Remote error list could be filled with warnings and errors.If it is not the current active view this could be confu...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future 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

Using Secured Connections with ICSF-based Certificate Keys

Establishing secured connections for IDz requires a security certificate. When this certificate is installed in RACF, there are two options for the private key; maintain within RACF or maintain with ICSF. This request is to have the ICSF-based key...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration