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EGL maps in Parts Reference should appear in different lines

In Rational Business Developer 7.5, EGL Parts Reference, Use Declarations, when there's an EGL mapset with several maps, they should appear as the tables, in the first line the mapset name, then we explode and see each map in different lines with ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Remote synchronize - disable the synchronization

The Remote Synchronization of Local Projects with remote z/OS PDS members are enabled with a drop down menu, but the users are missing the function to disable the synchronization.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz OMVS Root

I would like to set a default OMVS Root directory for RDz 7.5 Users when I start the RSE job. Product currently defaults to /.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Not under consideration

XML to COBOL converter numeric conversion inefficient

The algorithm / code generated by Rational Developer for z Series to convert incoming XML data to COBOL numeric data types is inefficient. This is my understanding of the generated inbound (XML to COBOL) XML converter code: 1) Whenever the convert...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

EGL handler using an EGL library holds on to global EGL library and the global variables within that library

request to improve performance by handling differently libraries in JSF handlers.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

PDS 'refresh' not working for anything except ISPF updates

Please see IBM issue 90060-227. This pertains to RDz client not recognizing updates to PDS members unless the update is done by TSO/ISPF. TSO/ISPF is the only thing that currently updates the "user data" area in the PDS directory, and that's appar...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Display Cobol tables and PL/I arrays, single dimension & multi-dimension like native language in the RDz Monitor window

Take a 3 dimensional Cobol table that looks like this:01 TABLE1. 02 TABLE1B OCCURS 2 TIMES. 03 SUB-TABLE OCCURS 3 TIMES. 05 SUB-TAB-ID PIC XXX. 05 REC-FORMAT OCCURS 75 TIMES. 07 SEG-IND PIC X. 07 SEG-ID PIC XXX. 07 ADDR-OF-SEG POINTER.When I monit...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Change XMI Defaults for properties

When we create a new Dynamic Web Project with Websphere as ?Target Runtime? environment (see screenshots 2.1), a certain set of default properties are set in Webcontent/WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi (see screenshot 2.2). At KBC, we wish to have differen...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance EGL Generation possibilities

1. Enhance the ?generate with wizard? so that it can be initialized with the settings of a previous generation (XMLfile that currently can only be used as input for EGLSDK)2. Allow multiple build descriptors to be linked with 1 program3. Allow a s...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Need to password popup when after wrong password entered

Customer need to have password popup functionality when after wrong password entered on RDz's data tools. (Database development perspective). Once the user typed wrong password, and after tries 3times, the userid will revoke. When, wrong password ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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