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Scan JCL residing on the Test LPAR against the Prod LPAR

Production JCL is being modified on the Test LPAR. The need is to scan the JCL for errors which requires networking a copy of the JCL to the Production LPAR, scanning the JCL, and send the syntax checks to the user. We have datasets existing in Pr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz zUnit - more easily to jump to the fail test case

It would be more user friendly for adding hyper link in zUnit test result such that it can jump to the corresponding test case in the program quickly.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz database explorer to suuport HEX value display and edit

We have some DB2 table column which is defined CHAR but will store some non-displayable hex value. Current RDz Database Explorer not able to handle it for both display and editing.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

request to support spaces on installation path for launchpad.exe

This a request following APAR PI14022 and PMR 84071,7TD,000 to allow spaces on installation path in launchpad.exe.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

RDz - Run Software Analyzer against entire remote project

We have this functionality available when executing against a local copy of a remote project. Since all files reside on the mainframe it is more practical to have this functionality available for a remote project where I can select one, multiple, ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz - Tape Managment Support

Enhance RDz to provide basic tape management support. Currently we use RMMI from ISPF but would like to see a GUI interface at some point to support mainframe developers.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Exclude Records option in MVS files

We have (Exclude records) option in file manager plug in. Is it possible to have similar functionality under MVS files.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

EST Bottom-Up support for modern webservices

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is currently done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and supports m...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RDZ - Charset selection at install

At install or RDz, we would like to have to possibility to select a charset that will be applied to all function that use charset (LPEX editor, host emulator, ...)We do not use the US charset 1047 in our company but 1147 instead and if our users f...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

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