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Add support for C/C++ in Software Analyzer feature for default RDz

RDz out of the box does not provide support for C/C++ in the Software Analyzer rules. However, if you install RDAixLinux, then you do get some analyzer rules. However, some of those rules are specific for the POWER processor. I would prefer some t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Arrows in program flow diagram

The program flow diagram shows sections and paragraphs and arrows. Arrows represent two kinds of events: PERFORM and "fall through". . This is pretty nice. However I see one improvement possible: make a distinction between the two types of arrows:...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement on RDz Code Formatter

We want RDz Code Formatter to extend it's current capabilities to support auto indentation more keywords, perferred but not limited to the belowVALUE, OCCURS, INDEXED, PIC, TO, COMP, COMP-3 The indentation should be able to parameterize to fit dif...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Need a way to check the client plugin version in CARMA RAM

We have customized our own CARMA panel to grey out some fields which we don't want developer to access. But we need a way to have checking on host side, such that it will reject the connection for all client without the particular CARMA plugin ins...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

in the output remote jobs add the step the job is on if it is running.

When I look at my jes log out in the remote systems, please add the step lib that the job is on if it is active. Though I remember seeing this submitted somewhere but can't find it so sorry if this is a duplicate.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Compare files

RDz compares are great if the files are small. I need a compare process for bigger files that will only provide the differences. Allow an option on the compare process that will return only differences in the compare windows. I would expect the fi...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Inspecting first element in array index 1,2,3,4 etc. when debugging

In our company some developers have requested if it would possible to inspect the first element in each array "record".
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 outline view - when items hidden show parent

From RDz 8.5 a new outline was introduced as part of the continous improvements in RDz. A new feature was the ability to see multilevel program construcs, and not only procedures in pl1. For instance select and do's is now visible in the outline v...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

RDz support for DB2 11

DB2 11 for z/OS support with current supported versions of RDz. There is currently no formal documented RDz support for DB2 11 for z/OS even though the GA was 4 months ago. Additionally, the DB2 11 support for the Data Studio elements was created ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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