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zUnit test case prefix is actually not required and its creating some other issues

Test case perfix overridng other program test cases and its a very high potential issue
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

While creating the test case, after we selected "Multiple folder" option, IDZ need to set all the folder name automatically.

Eacn and every time, we need to select manually after we select the option "Multiple folder" and its very time consuming as well. If this is fixd, it would be very helpful to developers.
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability.

IDz v16.0.2 RCE is not using the full display on monitor. It should enhance to use completed display area for better readability. It will improve developer to read screen properly.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Performance improvements reuested when using the built in Remote Connection Emulator under IDz 16.0.2

Compared to standalone host connection emulator software like PCOMM, the built in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) under IDz 16.02 is slower in performance when navigating ISPF screens and entering commands. The usability of the RCE could be impro...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Utilize user credentials when recording test cases in CICS instead of CICS user credentials

Current process requires RACF rule to permit CICS to store data at user level. This RACF rule or PERMIT would be mitigated if zUnit utilized user credentials. This would reduce customization steps on implementation.
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 0 Future consideration

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Add version/release number to folders in uss as in mvs when installing products

When idz ee and its different component like zexpl, zee, dbb and so on are installed on the mainframe then version/release numbers are created in mvs like V3R3M0, V16R0M0, V2R0M0 but there are no version/release-numbers in uss. If we would install...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

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