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Improve JCL Editor functionality for JES Show JCL

When using the Show JCL function, the JCL Editor can't hyperlink to data sets, members or procs. We have to ?Save As? to a JCL PDS then open it there to be able to use this functionality. This is a big headache/limitation.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Add customizable syntax highlighting for additional types in IDz

We like to have an option to add own customized syntax highlighting schemes for specific languages without any. More current versions of Eclipse (starting with Photon 4.8) include e.g. the Generic Text Editor which has such option on-board so we d...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Delivered

Show the length of a cobol variable or group

It would be good to find the size of a cobol working storage entry somewhere. For example in the tool tip. Or in the data elements table. Or in a new view. Sometimes it is neccessary to count the number of bytes used for a variable. This is easy f...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Requesting RDz v9.x to support Enterprise COBOL v5.1

Our application developers use Rational Developer for System z ("RDz") to generate Web Service programs for CICS. We are implementing the Enterprise COBOL v5.1 compiler in order to exploit the new and faster machine instructions on the zEnterprise...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Compare submitted JES JCL

Allow an option to select two jobs, right click the selection and select Compare Submitted JCL. Currently we have to select Show JCL for each job, save the JCL, navigate to the saved location, select the JCL's, select Compare With > Each Other
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Delivered

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings

Dark teama is not so useful with current color settings. If choosen then you have to do special adaptions to almost every area and editor to see the data correct or fully. Many users perfer the dark "look".
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

MOVE option is not available in RDz

MOVE option is not available
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

RSC: Don't mark replacement chars (e.g. ':') in literals in Copybooks as error

The real-time syntax checker marks statements in copybooks as error, when they contain replacement-markers like ":" (e.g. ":-SAWX-:") in literal definitions. Indeed, that would be no correct COBOL-coding, but those parts need to include incorrect ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Display Return Code for jobs in JES in Remote Systems view

Today we see job name and job id. We need to see the Job return code in JES in RSE view.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 12 Delivered

Update the System Z Data Editor to handle files that have large data record lengths

Enhance the System Z Data Editor to handle files with record lenghts greater than 5,000 bytes. The current editor starts having problems with records of this length. Per the comments in the PMR this problem comes from the limitation of SWT which i...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

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