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hexadecimal display of job output needed

With SDSF it is possible to watch joblog/output in hexadecimal mode. This by issuing the SET HEX ON command in the SDSF command line.In RDz the joblog/output is displayed in charachter mode only. RDz needs to provide an option to display joblog/ou...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

RDZ: Remote Systems View / JES /my Jobs

In rdz in the remote systems view, when you expand the JES/my jobs folder you get a list of jobs.If the job is executing it's marked by a greenish frame. This is a nice and user friendly information. It would how ever be even more useful if you in...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Delivered

Copy of MVS load modules in RDz to be supported

Remote System view does not allow to copy an MVS load module from one MVS dataset to another as it is possible with ISPF. RDz issues error message "Record format not allowed".This error should not occur and the copy should be possible.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

RDz; File Manager Interface; Compile not recognizing the replace commandx

Rdz File Manager integration. Compile needs to recognizing the replace command
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Members in a PDS to be selected for ofline working with RDZ need to be presented in sorted order

This RFE is a result from PMR 09118,300,624. The customer (UNMS, Belgium) wants to use the possibility to work offline with remote PDS members. The PDS from which the members can be selected to put offline, is not sorted. This happens when you ent...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

sysout depth when job active

when a job is still running,the sysout's depth in RDz is no as big as in SDSF. In case of batch old style's tracing (like a Display every 1000 records read or written), you cannot see if the pgm is still running correctly)
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 5 Delivered

delete of PDS or files toot easy from RDz

if from the z/OS Projects view a user right click on a PDS or a file under a PDS and Delete, a window pops up telling: Warning: the remote object is permanently deleted. But it's too easy to delete by mistake. In ISPF if you want to delete, you ne...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 9 Delivered

Using RDz with BMS editor, need to have a preference for EXTATTS= NO or YES

Working with RDz 7.5.1 and BMSThe customer is using only EXTATT=NOthe default is EXTATT=YESthere is no possibility to modify this default value in the preferencesThe customer is obliged each time he works with a new BMS to change the option EXTATT...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Suppress object of ODO from interface and calculate value at runtime

In a web services bottom up generation scenario, we use the OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause in our COBOL Copybooks to have variable length arrays and RDz correctly translates to the schema equivalent of minOccurs and maxOccurs. The use of the ODO claus...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

db2 explain of embedded sql

When developing PL1 or Cobol programs in rdz, containing embedded sql, we would like to have a feature that allows us to perform a DB2(running on z/os)explain of the statement. We have looked into OSC as a tool and this is an option if proper inte...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

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