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Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections. In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefix...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

IDZ : Make remote property groups support local copybook resolution.

In IDZ 15, for Cobol: You can set local folder for copybook resolution in a Remote Property Group. But these folder are in facted never used. Only PDS set in Remote Property Group are used. Local Property Group support local folder. The goal of th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enter button hasn't expected effect on a files selection in z/OS project view

The previous fix provided by IBM (in zExplorer 3.1 et 3.2 december 2020) does'nt work in z/OS project view. It only had been fixed in remote systems view. The development team considere TS011260613 as a enhancement request. Can you please make the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Add zUnit Functionality to COBOL Modules not in a PDS

Currently, you are only able to generate a test case using zUnit if the COBOL Program is located in a PDS file. Here at my organization, we often work with programs not retrieved from Endevor and directly to a PDS, instead leaving them in what we ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Delivered

Code Review on zOS works but produces java exceptions and FrameworkEvent ERROR

Running Code Review AKGCR on zOS produces the following java exception as well as several Framework Event errors:!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERRORandJVMJZTK2999W jzos.jar build version '2.4.4 2012-07-27' does not match libjzos DLL build version '2.4.8...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Delivered

RDz V9 CLOSES ALL OPEN ARTIFACTS WHEN A TIME OUT OCCURS

In version 9.0, when you are performing analysis on programs, JCL, copybooks, etc. and a time out occurs, all artifacts are closed. In previous versions of RDz, a time out of the z/OS connection left the programs, copybooks, JCL and all tabs open....
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

BANK HAPOALIM LTD

The Customer developed user-written rules to be tested with Code Review and wish to run them all in a Batch process on the zSystem:They used the provided JCL proc AKGCR to run the code review.The job was successful but the elapsed time was long, a...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Add option to not monitor for recalling and migrating datasets

When recalling or migrating datasets do not monitor until the completion of the action. Make it a fire and forget action. The recalling/migrating message dominates any other message. I will refresh the MVS Files filter myself to check for the comp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve JCL Editor functionality for JES Show JCL

When using the Show JCL function, the JCL Editor can't hyperlink to data sets, members or procs. We have to ?Save As? to a JCL PDS then open it there to be able to use this functionality. This is a big headache/limitation.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Program Control Flow

Program control flow has FROM HERE (to end of the program) and TO HERE (from the start of the program), however if there is an option to use “FROM HERE” “TO HERE” that would be a nice add on especially in large programs
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

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