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IBM Developer for z/OS

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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

RSE is outlined as the ENQ-User for a user- or team-library under TSO/ISPF

In certain cases, RSE is outlined as the ENQ-User for a user- or team-library under TSO/ISPF. The origin user, who has the ENQ cannot be evaluated in TSO/ISPF by hitting PF1 twice. There is a workaround to determine the correct user, who has the E...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Is a defect

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

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 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

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...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 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

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
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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