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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

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented

<JOBNAME> system variable not documented
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 4 Not under consideration

limit the password length in Rational Developer for System z

When customer is useig 6 - 8 characters limited password. Unlimit password length of logon prompter can cause the user error. Length limiting in preference is required by customer's security policy.
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

RDz should permit copy+paste (drag-and-drop) of a PDS member to a PS file

RDz should permit copy+paste (drag-and-drop) of a PDS member to a PS file
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Second Editor opens for linked Source after double-click in the remote error list

Second LPEX-Editor in a different project is opened of the same source. The first editor is opened in the project in which I am working with a <<linked>> Source. That is as expected. After syntaxcheck I get errors in the list ?Remote E...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Remembering last opened files

At the moment WDz doesn't remember the last opened files by the developer. When the developer closes WDz and starts it again, he cannot see the latest files he was working with. It would be very helpful when WDz would open all the files which were...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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