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IBM Developer for z/OS

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customized "lookup" features of customer application help

Lookup is a feature brought from "fault anaylzer integration", customer can search message/code/error explaination thru inputting keywords. All the current feature just cover COBOL,CICS, LE and so on about z/OS project. It will be help if we can c...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz Remote z/OS search - adding support for tape

Currently if you do 'Remote z/OS search', RDz can not find a dataset if it is being allocated on the tape, only if it is allocated on DASD. Please refer to PMR 93064,180,000. This is a very important feature.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 4 Not under consideration

Type-Processor Group relation needs a Refresh during the ADD Endevor

IN Endevor z/OS , there is a relation between the component type and the processor group . So we can view the list of the different processor groups for the type COBOL for example.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

RDz EST to support UTF8 request codepage

In Create New Service Interface, the current RDz EST client cannot support UTF-8 request code page if the corresponding copybook field is defined as PIC X
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Provide z/OS Health Checks to validate install and functionality

RDz should come with z/OS Health Checks that validate that RDZ is functional so that usability is automatically validated after every IPL or restart.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Need support for SOAP 1.2 binding in CICS compiled

RDz Enterprise Service Tool can only generate web service artifacts including WSDL in soap 1.1 binding for Compiled XML Conversion, even if setting soap version to 1.2 in the web service assistant option. Request to support generating web service ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RDz: support for -INC ABC. ( a period at the end ) - see PMR 28219,300,624

We are resquesting support for -INC ABC. ( a period at the end ), as per discussion in PMR 28219,300,624
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

JCL substitution works at steps level, not at job level

In RDz, in a property group, there's a tabl JCL substitution for steps like COBOL, PL/I, LInk, Run, but not for JCL; This means you cannot use substitution variables for the whole job. The only way to achieve this is follow the steps described in ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor ISPF commands don't all work in Uppercase

ISPF Commands should work in both upper and lower case for consistency in the user experience. Certain commands such as 'UNDO' only work in lower case. .
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Notification on ended job

When submitting a jcl in rdz, I would like a notification when the job has finished. Some users may NOT want a nofitication so this behaviour shuold be controlled by a preference or by having as "submit with notification" menu option.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration