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IBM Developer for z/OS

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DBB user Build Configuration enhancements

Currently all the IDz users needs to do some settings related to DBB User build Configuration for the first time before they can invoke the user build.By adding the below two functionality to DBB user build we think we can better manage the global...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Future consideration

z/OS Project View Should Support Refresh

When importing a project via the Git Repositories view, the z/OS Project view does not always update. This is indicative of the view not receiving the UI hook when another view updates the filesystem. I've had to close and then reopen the view on ...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

shortcut menu manager

i implemented actions in the menu manager and i need run options to include shortcut for exemple CTR+SHIFT+2 for the action
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

IDz v14.2.2 does not notification developers about code change in Git remote branch

Customer's original request: IDz v14.2.2 is not showing any notifications in the Git perspective when there are changes on the Git Bitbucket server. This caused developers to use older version of code base. Customer has been using Sourcetree till ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Provide support for remote libraries in the local preprocessors in IDz

(This idea was originally logged as case: TS009687272) We are using GIT repositories for developing Cobol and PL/1 sources in IDz. Because these sources reside in the locally cloned repositories or editors can only use local property groups for r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

zUnit: Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Future consideration