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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Enhance Endevor Eclipse Functionality within RDz

Work with CA to enhance the endevor plug-in within RDz to absorb the CARMA functionality. Ability to eliminate the need for a developer to choose which interface to use for Endevor within RDz. Provide 1 access method.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

warning for not being converted character

When client opens mainframe file, client converts SOSI character without any message. so, at that time, customer wants to get warning message of automatic "SOSI" conversion.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Combine COBOL outline view and preprocessor integration

The COBOL outline view is based on the content of the editor and not on the changes made by the preprocessor integration. That results in a very confusing and long outline view when (for example) the DIVISION statements are generated by the prepro...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Change mfivarsubsaction in Menu Manger to not remember previous entries

We use Menu Manager for a lot of custom actions within IDz, including actions to interact with our SCM, Endevor. We give users the ability to right click a module in the Remote Systems view and select from a range of Endevor actions, like add to E...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

FIND Function in COBOL Editor

Some users tells us that the "find" function isn't easy between occurrences in COBOL Editor and, for example, when they have two tabs open for differents files : a search on a tab "delete" the options on the other one. There is no functional F3 / ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement request for the data editor for adding filter and multi line functions

This request is to add functionality like the following ISPF functions : X ALL - excludes all lines from displayX ALL 'abc' - excludes all lines from display containing 'abc' somewhereX ALL X'10278F' 1 - exclude all data lines containing the packe...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Undo is not possible on replace noise words function

When we edit a source within noise words, we cannot undo the action and there is no marker left for us to see the change in the edited file.
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add column search filters to Data Elements View

We'd like to have more advanced search filters in the Data Elements View: Currently you're only able to search within the "Name" column but we'd like to search / filter also in other columns like "Declared in" etc...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

RDz- add date/time stamp to IRZ msgs on mainframe

Request to have time (date) stamp on the IRZ msgs. It becomes very diffiuclt at times trying to match up the error msgs between IMS Soap Gateway, IMS COnnect, and IRZ msgs produced by IRZCLCNV
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

database connection timeout (DB2 v9.1 z/OS) in database explorer (RDz v7.6))

In RAD v7.0.6, under preferences, clicking on 'DATA' there is a check box titled: 'Reconnect transparently if the connection timed out' This prevents a connection time out on DB2 v9.1 on z/OS when in the Database Explorer while developing SQL.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration