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IBM Developer for z/OS

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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 ...
over 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
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under 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...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to copy/paste text file with null character in RDz editors (Cobol)

RDz editors (Cobol, etc) do not have a way to allow cut/paste beyond a null-terminated string.When pasted into RDz, the file is truncated at the null-terminated line.Notepad editor replaces nulls with spaces and that is why it works in notepad. Ca...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Push to Client of Local property groups

The Push to client feature gives the opportunity to distribute the standard property groups to the developer's workspace. The local property groups are ignored.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism.

Rational Developer for System z v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism. The current extension point preprocessors are designed to be used only for describing text transformatio...
over 9 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

ISPF ONLY command

"ONLY" EDIT-macro delivered with ISPF. ONLY works exactly as a EXCLUDE ALL followed by a FIND <needle> ALL. SISPSAMP library in member ISRONLY. ONLY string | EXCLUDE string? to show or exclude lines with string in their name
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Generate JCL support for Non-ILE Assembler Debug/CC

Support to generate JCL for non-ILE assembler programs. Currently IDz has options to use with ILE Assembler , and are missing support for non-ILE Assembler programs. The missing part is minimal just need to add a new proc and configure it in IDz.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration