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IBM Developer for z/OS

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zUnit: support for unit testing of nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Not under consideration

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz compare program in different CARMA environment

When compare 2 programs in 2 different CARMA Endevor environment, it not show the environment name in the comparison windows. So it is very inconvenience to user to know which one (right or left) is actually in which enviornment. Also missing is s...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Shortcut to toggle the vertial line in the editor

We are using the PL/I editor and our developers who test IDz 14.0.0.5 like the possibility to have a vertical line for alignment of code - this is a big help. But they do complain about a missing shortcut to turn it on/off.It is too time consuming...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Debug Profile service error

There is a defect in the IDz 15.0.1.0 client, when accessing the debug profile service.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 2 Not under consideration

Find Unreachable Variables using RDz

Enhance RDz to find dead or unreachable variables in a COBOL or PL/I file. Usually when I get asked this question, I reply with the ?identify unreachable code' option available in COBOL and hopefully soon in PL/I, but that doesn't get very far. Wh...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

IDz client 15.0.1 has error getting dbg profiles from EQAPROF server

There is a defect in the IDz 15.0.1.0 client, when accessing the debug profile service. Specifically, I get the following error in my 15.0.1.0 client .log file (in the metadata directory of my workspace):!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during:...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDz Content Assist for SQL EXEC statements does not provide correct information.

The RDz Content Assit for DB2 is working fine for an EXEC SQL SELECT and in some cases( like EXEC SQL DECLARE or EXEC SQL INSERT) the Content Assist for DB2 does not work properly.. The RDz Content Assist for DB2 should not be reserved to simple S...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support refresh in SQL Outline view in RDz v9

in RDZ v9 integrated with Datastudio 4.1, it allows users to extract SQL from a cobol program into SQL outline view, and then run it separately. However, it don't have a way to refresh the view, that means when we remove the Cobol program from pro...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration