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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Create an API to add a quickfix to the COBOL editor

There are custom makros in the COBOL code. The preprocessor scanning the code finds a makro that is not used correctly. An easy fix is available. The user would expect a marking and a quickfix to correct the error. But at the moment (version 9.1) ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data items

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data item.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

need pushtoclient to export multiple RSE connections from the same host

RSE connections to the same push to client primary hostname are not exported with push to client export wizard. This restriction is documented on the RDz 9.1.1 Infocenter: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_9.1.1/com.ibm.etools.z...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Add "replying to operator console messages" to IDz

A console message such as 4200000 DEMOMVS 12.12.36 STC10875 *068 DFS996I *IMS READY* IMSC, response would require a 3270 interface to SDSF.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Code Analyzer Reporting Enhancements

We are trying to use the Code Analyzer to scan our programs for our Standards, but currently no reporting is done for our management to validate. Reports are local to the developer running them. We would like the tool to provide reporting to show ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Tags member of PDS by IDZ

IDz "tags" every members with the user of STC (RSEDx) so the dates of last use are not correct as all members of the PDS have the same date, with the same user IDZ must use ISPF modules/calls rather than reading the directory block info directly
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Make 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...' more flexible to fit customer needs

Hi, I have some issues with function 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...'. I collected these after talking with our developers, so this are issues real developers have. We took those issues using latest IDz 15.0.2 on Linux. As reference have a l...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 2 Future consideration

Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Compare datasets that are true TSO data files (not source files)

Currently developers using RDz 8.0.3 can download source files that have any EBCDIC character and compare the source files. But they cannot compare EBCDIC data sets that contain packed and binary values. Even though the Compare option is enabled w...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration