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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

Local record definitions

It would be nice if it was possible to define records locally within a program and even within a function. Then the programmer wouldn't have to think about making the record names unique when defining a record which is not meant to be used outside...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Map fields as function and program parameters

I would be nice if it was possible to parse map fields as in/out parameters to functions and programs.That would enable the programmer to write common functions and programs, setting the attributes of the map fields.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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

JTA support including transactionTimeOut

EGL currently does not support JTA (Java Transaction API). We are using DB2 on iSeries which supports the setLockTimeOut API for iSeries XADataSource objects associated with JTA. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Values stored by EGL in request / session / application should be accessible using Java

Values stored in request, session, application scope by EGL handler should be accessible using Java code. Currently this is not possible. Web applications always use request, session etc to store state-data for a user. With the fact that EGL relie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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