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Enhancement of PL/1 preprocessor

Two problems have been indentified in regards to the new hover information, added in RDz 8.5. When pointing at preprocessed pl/1 programs, the information is always correct. Please see the PMR for full details.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RDz support fixed font size in Host Emulator

It would be very useful for Host Emulator to support fixed font size as PCOMM does.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

Run Code Coverage in batch as a part of CI with out having to compile with debug.

In order to run code coverage, we would have to compile with debug and then run the code coverage and recompile with debug turned off. Comiple with debug is not allowed in Test,Release evironments. we would like to run the code coverage without ha...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Ability to run static code analysis on the deltas(changes only) of the source file

There could many violations to the existing code and as a user trying to complete project in time, I would not have time to fix all the violations, that could imply more testing effort is required. As long as I dont introduce a violation, we shoul...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Metadata files, xml orcsv, to be consumed/post code coverage results to a dashboard.

Ability for customers to consume and post code coverage results to a dashboard. We do not have any metadata(xml, csv) files, similar to static code analysis, that could be consumed for dashboarding the results.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

COBOL Program navigation using keyboard shortcuts.

Add functionality to the LPEX editor to allow users to use keyboard shortcuts to jump to COBOL paragraphs as well as jumping back to the parent paragraph.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Need a way to inhibit and resume CARMA connection

We have Endevor maintenance task that need all users to leave Endevor, such that we can perform the batch job such as reorg, backup, etc. In ISPF we can do this by inhibit the Endevor panel, or even force users to logoff from TSO. With introdcing ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

The LPEX opens some members in packed format

Some members of PDS datasets (JCL, LOAD, PARAM) were edited using the option PACK ON under MVS.. The LPEX opens these members in packed format, not readable. We cannot issue the command PACK OFF under RDz
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Extract To function should not be tightly coupled to CARMA view and MVS subproject

The "Extract To" function is a neat feature that allow developers to associate program modules to the CARMA source control (Endevor in our case). However, this function is so tightly coupled that it severely limits its usage. 1) It ties to a parti...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Managing preprocessor variables in PLI

Possibilitiy to manage different sets of preprocessor variables regarding the PLI editor. Might also be valid for other langauges using preprocessor facilities.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration