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    Code folding in Cobol Editor

    Provide code folding feature in the cobol editor. This means there is an ability to hide from view all the statements between an IF and its matching END-IF or ELSE as the case maybe. Also could apply to EVALUATE/WHEN.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    Z/OS Automated Unit testing -Automatically suppressing CRRDG7033E while generating code coverage report

    Multiple pop up windows open with the following error "CRRDG7033E Results were not produced because no debug information was contained in the modules or all modules were excluded." while generating code coverage reports. The error shows up even wi...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Code Coverage 1 Future consideration

    Changes in the property files (application-conf) should be picked automatically

    If there any changes in any .properties file in application-conf folder, should be picked automatically by DBB user build like CPY/COBOL the dependency files
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Improve performance for running code review by JCL

    When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Increase ease of use for updating SYSLIB in remote property group definitions

    Currently the SYSLIB definition in property groups is presented as a single field containing several blank-separated data set names.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

    save more eclipse view preferences

    We're facing the fact, that some preferences for views are not saved when closing and reopening the IDz client. For example there are views that do keep the size and order of their columns whereas other views don't. Or there are views that have th...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

    optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

    Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

    Log on at remote systems when sources with copy libraries on property group

    Even if you have sources with an associated property group configured with Copy Libraries pointing to a SYSLIB on a remote system, when you open a source with copys not present in the local SYSLIB, the copybooks are marked as not found. If in the ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

    Allow the ability to replace Property Groups with Importing

    When importing Property Groups, show the conflicting Property Groups unchecked in the list. If the user checks them. Overlay/replace the Property Group. The current scheme of having to delete a conflicting Property Group before being able to impor...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

    Enhance the DBB User Build Information popup

    When a user build finishes, IDz shows a popup window which states: "DBB User Build is complete for <name-of-the-source-file> Click Details to see the complete build log." This information doesn't provide any valuable information to the devel...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

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