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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.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Evaluate Variable length String Moves

Evaluate Variable length String Moves. We have a lot of ANSI X12 and HL7 formatted messages and records that require parsing and subsetting. When using the Monitor Tab to display these types of variables the "EQA2314E Evaluation not supported" mes...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Client authentication in RDz

RDz should enable SSL with client authentication. Currently only host authentication is supported.In addition, the user credentials have to be taken from a Smartcard interface, using MSCAPI, and then passed to the mainframe.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Regular expression search not available from Remote z/OS Search

Regular expression search is not currently available from Remote z/OSSearch tab in RD/z. We would like this functionality because we think it would be very beneficial to have the Regular expression search feature available on this tab.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

COBOL Compiled XML Conversion: XML2LS language structure initialization support

Customer Published Description to be provided.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Support Packed Data

Support Packed Data. The debugger can discriminate Binary data from Zoned Decimal, it should also be able to discriminate and show packed data.Packed data fields come up as ?EQA2377E Invalid data? in the monitoring window.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

Support Break After evaluation on statement

Support Break After evaluation on statement.A second suggestion related to the type of thing above (see RFE ID 2436), especially on CALL and LINK and I-O statements, would be to have the ability to BREAK on a statement AFTER the statement is execu...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Support for EXEC SQL

Support for EXEC SQL statements so they won't get flagged by real time syntax checker when they are actually ok and so that includes included by EXEC SQL INCLUDE are correctly suported in the real time syntax checker.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered