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IBM Developer for z/OS

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Support Graphic option in RDz Host Emulator

In PCOMM it can enable the "Graphic" option, but we can't see the same option in RDz host emulator.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Allow i for INSERT to add a line above the first line in LPEX Editor

Allow a line to be inserted with INSERT above the first line in the LPEX Editor.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Missing User Build for C sourcefiles

50% of our sourcefiles are written in PL/I, 45 % in C.The use of the User Build increases the productivity of the developers.Currently the User Build works only for PL/I sourcefiles.We need to use the User Build also for C sourcefiles.(Currently t...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Make what action a double click performs in the Remote System Deatils view configurable.

When double clicking a running job, I would prefer it to "go into" instead of opening the Spool.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Hebrew/BIDI support for RDz JCL Editor

There is no BIDI support for the RDz JCL editor.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

"Show Expanded Source" should also cater for "REPLACE" statement

The new feature "show expanded source" in RDz 9.1.1 client, should also cater for the COPY REPLACING statement in the program source, otherwise it will cause parse error after expanded the copybook, and lot of feature will then be disabled, e.g. p...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz enhancement for JES job comparison

RDz v9.1.1 client has the new feature to compare JES joblog. We want this feature to be enhance to support comparison on selecting one or more steps.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz gets ICH408I message printed in the syslog on CARMA connect attempt try to write /u/sys/RSED/.profile

ICH408I message printed in the syslog everytime a user connect to CARMA. It seems it and request was denied due to insufficient authority. Administrators may notice that every time we connect thru CARMA, there are messages similar to these in the ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Future consideration

RDz : Unexpected syntax check errors reported in a PLI file within comments

When opening a PLI file,and using the "Source -> Preprocessor statements -> Idenfity Using Specific Output File", some comments become marked with syntax check errors "Ambiguous reference to ..."
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Status of all the connections defined in the Z/OS project view

In the Z/OS perspective we need to get the status of all the connections defined in the "Remote System" view. As we have several environments and we are regularly facing time out issues we need this clearly until the component level we are updated.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration