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Copybook automatic length calculation

Our RDz developers would find it very usefull to have a feature integrated in RDz editors to display copybook length when they are browsed or edited: length information can concern each variable or whole record defined in the copybook.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

Installationmanager for IDz language independend from OS

A way to preset the language of the installation manager itself (to english) during (silent) installation is needed.Adding "-nl en" to the command line for installation of IM has only two effects: - output during installation is in english - insta...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Extend IDz editor for mass editing of Refactor function.

Hello In the IDz refactor option, there is a feature to remove noisy words. It works fine at each component level, but there is a future need to activate this noisy word for mass editing of multiple components at the same time. Please note this is...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

With IDz EST SOAP, allow Copy Books to be added from level >1 and allow Request/Response from different copybooks

With IDz Enterprise Service Tools SOAP bottom up method, allow the Copy Books to be "started" from level >1. Allow different copybooks to be used for Request and Response. This is the primary problem, but there were a few other limitations the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

Popup Window "Manage Licenses" stops RDz unexpectedly

RDz Version 9.0.1.0. In the "Manage Licenses" window RDz will be closed without any hint.A click on the "x" for closing window ends the complete RDz. By the focus pre assignment to "Leave Workbench" the whole RDz will be stopped with a "Return Cli...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Add preference option to suppress or control prompting behavior for multi-selected elements

The following problem description and solution was provided the CARMA developer. ---- Start of problem description ----The way CARMA works is that when you select multiple elements, CARMA will present a dialog for each selection. The IDz Endevor I...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Plugins needed to generate deployable Enterprise Service Tools artifacts

We are using the Enterprise Service Tools perspective from within IDz. We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system, preferably L...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

RDz Add functionality to associate Property Group to CARMA Endevor Element being opened in browse/read-only mode

With the RDz CARMA Endevor integration, we have added the functionality to resolve copybooks/dependencies from Endevor and/or property group. However, when opening an Endevor element in browse/read-only mode, you do not have the capability to asso...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Using ALTERNATE INDEX VSAM file in zUnit

VSAM (KSDS) using ALTERNATE INDEX is not currently supported when unit test is performed with zUnit. Our PJT uses VSAM which defined ALTERNATE INDEX very much, and efficiency can not be expected unless we can not unit test by zUnit for maintenance...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Ability to override PARMs in ELAXFMFS proc through IDz Property Groups

Our IDz users, who use the IBM supplied ELAXFMFS proc, have let us know that they're unable to override the PARM specification (in this ELAXFMFS proc) through IDz. Typically, for all other ELAXF* procs, they're able to override PARMs using IDz ‘Pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

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