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IBM Developer for z/OS

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RDz v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism.

Rational Developer for System z v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism. The current extension point preprocessors are designed to be used only for describing text transformatio...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Explorer - Editor plug-in needed

I think there is an urgent need for a proper editor plug-in for z/OS Explorer, that will provide at least the same functionality as the ISPF editor for:- COBOL- REXX- JCL- CLIST
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Reduce memory usage in CARMA C_GET_CONTAINER_CONTENTS

When a user is listing the entries (datasets, dataset members, etc.) under a container, all of the items are passed from the CARMA RAM to CARMA via memory (C allocation) and from CARMA to client via memory (Java allocation). It is needed to reduce...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

In the COBOL editor, be able to put the cursor at any column on a line like in LPEX

Using the LPEX editor, while editing COBOL, the user can put the cursor at any column in a line by just clicking with the left mouse button at the position where the cursor has to be set. After that, the user can enter text that will be inserted f...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Show HEX Edit Line of Local COBOL/PLI Files

Customers using RTC and RDZ using local projects for their repository workspace would like to use the 'Show HEX Edit Line' in LPEX and display the hex in their EBCDIC codepage.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor : A List Of Functional Hotkeys

In COBOL Editor, when you push the keys Ctrl + Shift + L, you have a list of hotkeys. A majority hotkeys are functional but some do nothing or wrong, some examples : - "Copy Lines" (Ctrl + Alt + Down) is a system hotkey to flip from down to up (gr...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

menu manager - allow us to control sizing of popup menu manager window

I have been building some Menu Manager screen and have been putting the output from my Rexx routine into this popup window. I would like to increase the size of this window so that I don't have to manually increase it every time I run this process...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Better filter option in RDz 9.5

Maybe this is by design - but I thing you should changed that.I can select a "Retrieved Data Set" and define a New->Filter with selected dataset.This is fine and a nice little feature.But if I select two or more datasets this options is not ava...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration