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Support Genpkgid in Endevor Package RAM

Endevor allow the user to enforce naming standards for Endevor packages. The enforcement is done via coding the GenPkgid package exit. This exit is invoked at the time of packake creation . For the Package RAM the exit is not invoked. Moreover by...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

Debugger in RDz - PL1 handles, types (PMR 18464,010,678 )

Debug Tool in RDz(Rational Developer for system Z V9.1) is owned by IBM, hence we have to make a Request for enhancement to them to get this to work. My experience is that this can take a while before the fix this. We can use memory maps in then d...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Limit the size of drag and drop file in RDz

Need a way to control the file size for the "drag and drop" action from host to local. If the file size exceed a predefined value, the action should fail.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

Depending on whether the compile option is ADV (default) or NOADV, it seems that future measures are needed.

Depending on whether the compile option is ADV (default) or NOADV, it seems that future measures are needed. 1) For ADV option The product development team also confirmed that the combination of the WRITE ADVANCING clause and the ADV compiler opti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Linkage Parameter issue for testing a program via zUnit.

- Program name: LBTBDAYS- It's a sub-program where it is called by main-program by passing the parameters. - Linkage section parameter list - LK-CBTBDAYS-PARAMETER-LIST defined as PIC X(64). - In the procedure division of the sub-program, this fie...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Add an option for member sort to prevent misplacement due to specific code page

In order to prevent misplacements in the list of members as displayed by RDz due to the use of a specific code page (*),we need an option in RDz for member sort: 1 - Use windows default 2 - Use alphabetic sort This option could be placed under "Re...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Export in Search View

In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

zUnit Assertion to include also less than, greater than

It would be better if the Assertion logic also include the Greater than (>) and Less than (<) comparison.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Code folding feature in RDz Cobol Editor

This is a request to incorporate the "code folding" feature in the Cobol editor in RDz. The LPEX editor has this feature by using X or XX to "hide" lines. Ideally this should work with Scoped statements. i.e. all the statements in an IF-ENDIF pair.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Dependency Based Build - Userbuild: suppress messages in Remote Error List

When we perform a user build of a Cobol program in IDz, we want the compile errors and warnings to be visible in the 'Remote Error List' view. To get this working we added the following DD's in theif (props.errPrefix) {} part of our Cobol.groovy s...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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