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Possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly within RDz UI

Customer is requesting the possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly from RDz UI so that they do not need to use the IBM z/OS Connect EE API editor which requires a batch job submission.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Move default OPEN option to the z/OS File System Mapping view level

I would like to see the setting of the default option when opening a member in a PDS to ?Browse?, ?View? or ?edit? moved from the Preferences menu and (perhaps) placed on the z/OS File System Mapping. As a developer, I would like better control ov...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor Enhancements - Find/Replace, Auto Comments, and User Commands/Actions

Cobol Editor Enhancements - Find/Replace, Auto Comments, and User Commands/Actions
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Batch Software Analyzer for PL/I always gives 0 results where as RDz software analyzer gives results on the same

Hi,We are in the process of implementing Batch software analyzer for COBOL and PL/I developers when they want to check the health checks of their code.We got the RDz in host upgraded to V9.5.0 and tried running the batch software analyzer on the s...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

The ? source PDS member name ? in the ADD Screen

In the Endevor Interface ADD screen , the field ? Source PDS member name ? is still initialized with its value positionned during the previous ADD action.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Not under consideration

Present a more meaningful message when Remote Syntax Check is called with "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources.

Present the IDz user a more meaningful profesional message when calling Remote Syntax Check with shortcut "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources. Currently IDz users receive an unexpected and unclear technical exception error dialog when...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Toggle new Comment in JCL Editor

The function "Toggle Comment Continuation" (Ctrl+/)in the jcl editor inserts a character (*) on position 72 so that the comment can continue the next line (line beginning with // + one space) it works fine but it is not the recommended way for ins...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

To display properties of TAPE dataset

Unable to see properties for tape dataset
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz's COBOL Editor do not handle substrings correctly

We have the following scenario 01 TEXT PIC X(20). 01 CHAR PIC X(1). MOVE TEXT(1) TO CHAR. The MOVE statement is incorrect it SHOULD have beeen MOVE TEXT(1:1) TO CHAR The error was detected during the compileprocess, but should have been recognized...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Support for more command thru COMMAND file for Remote Debugging

For remote debugging using IDz, we can use a COMMAND file, but the commands that can be executed before the program stop in debugger are limited. One of the reason we use the command file is to conditionally stop the program in the debugger based ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Not under consideration