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Deliver all fixes - including Test fixes - as Installation Manager repositories

We base all Rational software installations on IBM Installation Manager.Fixes which is not Installation Manger enabled, causes Danske Bank a significant overhead. Therefore we want IBM to deliver all fixes - including Test fixes - as Installation ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Change RSE logon procedure to JobMon

The existing procedure for RSE is to use the userid and password it receives from the client to logon to JMON. The request is to let RSE create a passticket to perform a separate logon to JMON rather than using the same userid and password from th...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Delivered

RDZ outline view PL1/Cobol

In RDZ in the outline view, you can click a procedure and when doing so the editor takes you to the correct posision in the code.It would be useful if it was posible to return to the posision you were in before clicking the procedure in the outlin...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Request to change RDz's error message

If the userid revoked by RACF, RDz shows different error message. Server failure, : EDC5121I invalid Argument,
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

text extraction feature

comment extraction feature to pull comments and descriptive text from the source code for adding to RAM assets or even providing a better start for documenting an application. It would cut down on time spent documenting as well as commenting in RA...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Have option to toggle filename extensions in project view

Provide an option to toggle off the extension name of a file in the project view. Currently I see ?XXXX.PDS.COBOL(MODNAME).cbl in the project view when I add a COBOL source member to my project/subproject. Windows allows me to set view options to ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

Generation of Cobol Copy Books or PL/I Includes for MFS Maps in RDz

The RDz MFS Editor should be able to generate Cobol copy books or PL/I includes for the input fields that are edited with the graphical MFS Editor.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

more comfortable entry wizard for the RDz 7.5 debuggiung plugin

As of today: 1, the user needs to define 'deferred' if a program was not yet loaded by debug tool. 2: it is necessary to type in mostly 3 times the same name for module, compile unit and entry name. This could be made more comfortable by assuming ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

JESJobUtil has strange

JESJobUtil does not recognize the "cancelled job". If the job that is submitted by JESJobUtil, is cancelled, then hasJobFinishedExecuting(jobId) always return "false".
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Delivered

Copy of PDS members who contain characters, which might result in a roundtrip-problem, should not be allowed.

A member of a PDS can be corrupted by copying it into the same PDS via RSE, when it contains x'0D'. In order to avoid this corruption, RSE shouldn't allow me to copy such a member or it should do a binary copy instead.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

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