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Copy of PDS members who contain characters, which might result in a roundtrip-problem, should not be allowed.

A member of a PDS can be corrupted by copying it into the same PDS via RSE, when it contains x'0D'. In order to avoid this corruption, RSE shouldn't allow me to copy such a member or it should do a binary copy instead.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Support for XML attributes

Customer need to be able to create inbound and outbound programs for XML schemas that contains XML attributes with values. Like <person sex="female">.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Client authentication in RDz

RDz should enable SSL with client authentication. Currently only host authentication is supported.In addition, the user credentials have to be taken from a Smartcard interface, using MSCAPI, and then passed to the mainframe.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Invoking J2EELib from EGL Libraries

Currently J2EELIB functions can not be issued from EGL libraries running in J2EE environments. When using layered approach for implementing complex enterprise applications using EGL, each layer is implemented in the form of EGL libraries (e.g. DAO...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

COBOL Compiled XML Conversion: XML2LS language structure initialization support

Customer Published Description to be provided.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Change preferences for LPEX editing so the developer can decide if and when the include members are refreshed for editing

With RDz version 7.1.1 the include members are refreshed with every action executed in the LPEX editor. Since Fortis has an average of 30 include members in each PL/I program this takes a long time. It can be up to 4 minutes when working with a so...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

View or ballon message with a variables declaration

We would like to have a view with all variables declare information. When that variable is in focus (under the cursor) the declaration view should have the declare value in focus.Alternativley/additionaly we would like to have the declare informat...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Fully qualified variables in cobol content assist

In content assist having an option of selecting a fully qualified variable - like in PL/I.It would be especially nice if it is controlled by a preference to choose between having unqualified, both unqualified and fully qualified and fully qualifie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Debug console lost data when a cpu session time exception occurs

If I am doing "set auto on" or have breakpoint information int he debug console, this information can be used to help know where I was in the program being debugged. I hit a cpu session time out exception and all the data from the debug console wa...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Combine 01's when creating A CIS WS

1. Combine mulitple 01's when using CICS as a WS provider2. Create a standard parser when required to use RDz
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Delivered

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