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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...
about 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...
over 14 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...
over 14 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...
over 14 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 ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Need to be able to highlight multi jobs and click on the submit. Today the submit not available when select multi jobs

When I have to submit multi jobs on the mainframe at the same time I should be able to highlight all the desired jobs and click submit. It is slow to have to submit individual and more prone to error. In ISPF I can do this in 3.4 with the = on eac...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Media distribution for Rational Developer for System/z

The quantity of CDs for RD/z is somewhat ridiculous (I think that 7.6 has 58 CDs). A much more preferable option would be to put the client CDs onto a portable harddrive. The install should be modified (if necessary) so that after all upfront sele...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

formatted editor needs to display a column ruler

The FM 'formatted editor' in RDz needs to display a column ruler when displaying and editing files. Without that it is very very difficult to view and edit files (esp. binary files) with larger records. Without that column info you loose the overv...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

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