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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Finding non printable characters in Editor

Some datasets from z/OS can't be opened with LPEX due to codepage restrictions. It would be very helpful to have a equivalent to ISPF-Editor command Find p'.', which points to the location of the character(s), that prevents the file from being edi...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

RDZ RSE/LPEX should support IBM-274 (Belgium old)

RDz RSE/LPEX does not implement IBM-274 (called in the Host Emulator Belgium Old) (it is almost identical to french IBM-297 or IBM-1147 except a few characters). On the contrary, the Host emulator implements it.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz-JES: deleting jobs with DEL-key

In the jes-monitor within remote system view you can delete jobs via context menue, but not by pressing the DEL-key. It would be useful to have this function on a key.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Display property groups in alphabetical order

The property groups displayed in the Property Group Manager currently appear to be displayed in "chronological order". When, as in our case, a large number of property groups are involved (>30 and growing), it is very difficult to find the corr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Notification when disconnect from host via RSE and an editor window is open

There are two different behaviours of an open editor window when terminating RDz directly or when disconnecting from host via remote system view. Scenario 1: termination RDz directly while a changed source is open in the editor> there is a noti...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RDz Developer Unable to View Output from CARMA/Endevor Generate Process

An RDz 7.6.1 Developer is unable to view the output produced from a CARMA/Endevor Generate (compile) process.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Loding of datasetinformation is very slow

You display a memberlist in the remote system details view and a lot of the information has to be loaded. For example size, creation date and userid. It takes a long time to load the information. I have measuered about 8 seconds for just 20 member...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

IMS SOAP Gateway must have the function both of top-down and bottom-up approach in RD/z product.

Our customer has decided to adopt interface centric design using WSDL. We have several environments including Web Services requester and provider. So we must have both top-down approach (WSDL to COBOL copybook) and bottom-up approach (COBOL copybo...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 7 Delivered

Local syntax check in RDz needs to support EXEC DLI commands to support the IMS enviornment

Currently RDz handles EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL commands. It also needs to handle EXEC DLI commands. This includes the automatic inclusion of the DLZDIB area that holds the DIB* fields used by IMS. The following code: EXEC DLI GU USING PCB (DBDAM81-P...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

Support WSDL-Validation for ws-i compliance as RAD does

RDZ doesn't support the same service policies for validation of WSDL-Files as RAD does. In RDZ, we can select Service Policies/Profile Compliance WS-I AP 1.0 and WS-I BP 1.1 + SSBP 1.0. In RAD we can select the same Compliance and additional WS-I ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered