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Provide icon hoverover feature to reduce learning curve times.

It would be great if there was the ability to see more information about what each and every icon represents when a mouse hoverover is performed. Being used to a greenscreen world all of my career, getting in and using RDz in Eclipse has been chal...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Adding TWS Variables to the JCL Syntax highlighting.

The jobname is a TWS variable and the RDz generates an error message "Incorrect JOB name.". Other variables in the jcl are OK. For example date variables in dataset names do not generate an error message. The problem described in this RFE is that ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Need to add some features to the Host Emulation part of RD/z

I would like to see some features added to the Host Emulation feature of RD/z. It should enable installations to eliminate the use of separate emulators (and the cost of those emulators).
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Not under consideration

Need capability to restore/recall a host archived file from RDz Remote System Explorer

Would like to have a 'Restore Archived File' action on the right-click drop-down menu when selecting a z/OS file which is archived (ie. dimmed out on RDz) with a other vendor product. The action should request a restore operation on the file and i...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

possibility to resolve copybooks during SCLM browse

When browsing a program in SCLM perspective the copybooks are not resolved by COBOL or LPEX editors. It works during edit and operation log shows an extra step:SYSLIB Retrieval Operation Copybook support has been introduced for edit with http://ww...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

PL1- and Cobol Editor has wrong event handling with subscription

We are writing own plugins and are using the RDZ subscription mechanism. This mechanism works perfectly with the LPEX editor, but the pl1- and cobol editor when closing a dirty editor, sends first the close event and then the postChangeEvent on th...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Browing on sequencial file is taking lot of time.

Browsing the sequencial file is taking lot of time.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Show named loops in OutlineView

RationalDeveloperForSystemZ/PLI-Source/OutlineViewCurrently named loops (e.g. loop_csr_fpks: do forever;) are not shown in the outline view, is there any intention to change this behaviour in future releases of RDz?It would be nice to have an extr...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

RDz integration with OS Connect EE service archive generator and API editor

Provide integration with the z/OS Connect EE service archive generator similar to that provided by the CICS JSON services wizard of Enterprise Service Tools. This integration will facilitate the selection of input language structures and service p...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for syntax check on copybook

When we used RDZ 8.0.3 we didn't have any problem.Like we are on RDZ 9.5.0 our copybooks have all lines with warning marks.For all copybooks (about 40 000) we use the clause replacing witch consist on change all :XXXX: in the copybook by R1 (by ex...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

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