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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...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future 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

zUNIT: add optional field that the user would type in the CICS region for Recording Service

Now that CICS support is implementing the CICS Recording Service on other CICS regions I noticed that IDZ has no way of differentiating which URL is pointing to which CICS region. The only identifier is the port number but there’s no way to know w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

User build option to be visible for second program as project default for 1st program and wizard to be improved

It will reduce the developer time for userbuild. I have added all description as attached the screen and shot. Kindly refer the ticket no TS009289506 if any additional questions
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

COBOL Editor ignores Propertygroup

I have COBOL code in a file on a remote system and the exact same code in a local file. When I open the remote file the propertygroup (and especially the preprocessor extension) is used, when I open the local file it is not. The features of the ed...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Formatter doesn't work as expected

The Formatter for PL/I programs only works when programs are preprocessed because of our internal prepro-macros.Sometimes literals are set to upper-case!
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 6 Not under consideration

RDZ needs to support panels and groups for use with SDF2

Uploading RDz changes into SDF II. Want CICS screen changes made in RDz able to be loaded into SDF II libraries to keep code consistent. This will allow users to make CICS screen coding changes in SDF II and RDZ. This means RDz needs to support pa...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration