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PL/1 outline view - when items hidden show parent

From RDz 8.5 a new outline was introduced as part of the continous improvements in RDz. A new feature was the ability to see multilevel program construcs, and not only procedures in pl1. For instance select and do's is now visible in the outline v...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

RDz support for DB2 11

DB2 11 for z/OS support with current supported versions of RDz. There is currently no formal documented RDz support for DB2 11 for z/OS even though the GA was 4 months ago. Additionally, the DB2 11 support for the Data Studio elements was created ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected so that you can do repeated FIND or REPLACE on the selected text without having to reselect the text each time.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Support searching with embedded wildcard

Search filter * within the text does not work. Eg. NH.DEV*.SOURCE gives 0 results. However, the pattern works fine when creating a new Filter on MVS FILES. Can the search facility be enhanced to accept embedded wildcards?
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

job success/ failure notification popup in RDz JES

There is no job success/ failure notification popup in RDz JES. Can IBM provide one?
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Convert tab to x'05' when copying data from notepad to LPEX editor

When we copy some statements in word document or notepad to the LPEX editor which contains some "tab", it will become the x'05' characters once saving it to host. It will lead to syntax error and hard to identify the problem. Could LPEX editor be ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Webservice in RDz: -INC is not recognized by the web service generator wizard

When creating a new CICS web service using the "Enterprise Service Tool" bottom-up approach, the process is based on a Cobol or PL/1 program.During the process, the program is syntax checked and any errors will stop the process. In Danske Bank we ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

export feature updated to correctly use the same format of the DB2 datatype for timestamp which is '2500-01-01-12.00.00.00000

Issue with the exporting of information out of Data Studio - when the result comes back as a timestamp (see TAX_LOT_ID and CLOSE_TAX_LOT_ID below), the date and time are separated by a space. When you export to excel, it can't figure out where the...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

The findText function in the ISPF/LPEX editor does not behave like the FIND command in the ISPF editor.

The find command in the ISPF/LPEX should work with only one column specified like the ISPF editor command. Mainframe programmers familiar with the ISPF editor expect similar functionality out of the ISPF/LPEX find command.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Autosave in PL/I and JCL editor

In LPEX there are an autosave facility. This is not the case for PL/I and JCL editors. Our users want this feature because they want a local save of the file in the editor. In z/OS Project we use mainframe files, but an autosave should go to the d...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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