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IBM Developer for z/OS

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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

endevor

when I have a module that is in my project folder that is associated to endevor, I would like a way to click and release the association to endevor. This will help clean up problem that can occur that RDz may not be able to recover from. Then I ca...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Scan JCL residing on the Test LPAR against the Prod LPAR

Production JCL is being modified on the Test LPAR. The need is to scan the JCL for errors which requires networking a copy of the JCL to the Production LPAR, scanning the JCL, and send the syntax checks to the user. We have datasets existing in Pr...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add Endevor's batch list element option to CARMA ‘custom' tab

To enable batch 'List Elements' to be available from the IDz client when using CARMA 'custom' tab.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Perform several ADD ENDEVOR at the same time.

We often need to make an "ADD ENDEVOR" a set of components.In TSO, it is possible to do so (See the attached file), but not via RDz CARMA.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 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.
over 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.
over 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
over 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.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration