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Rational Developer for System z should preserve member statistics (created/changed date) when COPY/PASTE done to another PDS.

When using Rational Developer for System z (RDz) to COPY member from one z/OS PDS and PASTE member into another z/OS PDS, ISPF statistics on member should be transferred as well. This should work like ISPF 3.3 does when copying member(s) from one ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz Time out issues

RFE submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While editing in RDz for a long time, even though we are in RDz, RDz times out. RDz should provide a warning message that it is about to disconnect.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

LPEX : Have a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHave a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection, which can be found by right after clicking then Selected File Selection -> Fill Selection...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

LPEX : New preference for having Rectangle Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHaving Rectangle Select be able to select one less character when using rectangle selection in LPEX Editor (ispf mode).
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10

Need to support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

request to indent code in COBOL editor like in Java editor

Currently LPEX and COBOL editor do not indent COBOL code automatically while typing like in Java editor. For example: - type a IF statement and press return key - cursor moves under the IF while it would be also useful to have it indented further ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

Map Generator of IDZ 14.1 for PLI truncates comments of fields used to build PLI structure names

IDZ 14.1 for PLI - Map Generator Comments of Fields in BMS Sourcefiles are truncated to 7 chars. Therefore structure names are limited to 7 chars. BMS Source-Files that have been used on z/OS to generate PLI Includes with SDF-II on z/OS. We know, ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA to extract 2 types of element to local project

We are using RDz client 8.0.3.1 When we want to extract "all elements" for one or more types to local project by CARMA, we can only select one single type or all types in a subsystem. But we cannot select 2 or multiple (but not all) types.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration