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The aqua download site should provide an EPP package to download

Like other IDE (e.g. Eclipse) IDz should also provide an EPP package to download on their aqua download side,. This would simplify the use of the Eclipse-Installer should customers decide to use one. As a first step it would suffice to provide the...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Support for EXTERNAL data

zUnit should support data items declared as EXTERNAL. If a data item in COBOL is declared as EXTERNAL it can be used to pass data from a calling program to a subprogram, and therefore should be recorded as if it is a parameter. Also when calling a...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Automatically transfer property files to USS

Currently it is necessary to transfer the configuration manually (either by building them or by using the Configure User Build dialog). We would like to have a way to e.g. specify property files that are always to be transferred or that DBB automa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Automatically populate the "Data Type" when running a selected DB2 statement

Since the previous "Value"s are stored after running a selected DB2 statement, it would be helpful if the "Data Type"s of these host variable would be retained. This would be especially useful for queries with several conditions. It seems as thoug...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under 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
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Possibility to collapse/expand EVALUATE/IF/PERFORM statements for COBOL source

For the COBOL editor, today it is possible to expand or collapse a division, section or paragraph using the plus/minus icon in the left margin next to the division or section name. We would like to have the same functionality for EVALUATE, PERFORM...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration