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Remote Connection Emulator - Screen Size 62x160

Screen size 62x160 has been support by other emulators such as Host Emulator and HOD. Most of our workstations have large screens. With 62x160 setup, we can view so much more of mainframe data in 1 screen than scrolling right and down. There are p...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Support Left/Right Control Key Mapping for Remote Connection Emulator for Improved Adoption of Migrating User from Host Connection Emulator

I have created Remote Connection Emulator configurations and the connection is working, however, there is a challenge I am facing to remap the enter key to be the CTRL key. I can see in preferences Remote Connection Emulator is mentioned but the k...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Configuration of DBB in IDz similar to ‘zapp.yaml’ in VSCode.

We would like to use a defined ‘zapp.yaml’ in IDz as it is configured in VSCode. So it would be much easier for the user to use the build. It is quite complicated to setup the user build for a normal host user. And it would be perfect to let the d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Support for User defined function in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to work DB2 User defined functions trough IDz UI. It would be an improvement to have the ability to work with and debug those for the de...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

Enhance the setting UI of Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

Now there are 2 place that can configure the connection parameters (host / port, etc) in the RCE - the "Host properties" tab at the bottom - the "Session properties" button on the upper right corner Users are always getting confused for how / wher...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

IDz V16.0.1 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator

IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator : IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator - ex use of letters is not available (Ctrl+Shift+Z). This can be included.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 4 Future consideration

zUnit should provide option to remove or clear the queues created during recording

zUnit is creating TSQs like A+ 6A²N, A+ Ù7), etc when stop recording is triggered in IDz. These TSQs are not deleted upon completion of the recording activity, thus leaving it in the system causing shortage to tempstorage.
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 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 ...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration