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Outline possibility to hide procedure constructs ie. do, select and other?

From RDz 8.5 the outline view has been enhanced greatly, including a-z ordering, hide of different parts of the outline content(includes, labels etc.) however their exists no functionality which can hide the "program structures" elements. Looking ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Future consideration

Enhance CARMA version history view

The "CARMA version history" view should be enhanced to break down different fields into separate column for easier reference, rather than combined all into a single "Comment" column.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

RDz support open copybook inside Assembler program

Support open copybook member in context menu in Assembler program, same as Cobol.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Multi Connecttions to LPARs

We run RDz and PD tools in an environment with 8 LPARS, leading to many connect per user of which we have up to 200.We therefore suggest an option in RDz and PD tools infrastructure to enable reuse of connection setup.We have password synchronizat...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

RDz Editor and Templates and Snipppets

We think it could be an advantage to:<br />- enhance the editors handling of insertions by allowing the user to specify positions. E.g. /* ${subroutineName}${70}*/, where {70} pinpoint location of next character insertion.?<br />- the ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Endevor Building Views, allow multi elements under a single view.

When I am building a View in the Carma interface for Endevor allow me to be able to enter multi Element names. When working on a project that has a few programs in it, it would be nice to be able to tie some of the programs, jcl or what ever under...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Endevor Quick Edit stream line ccid's and prompts

when using Quick edit I am prompted up to 3 times for the CCID and Descritpion. ? ?In TOS ?I am prompted one time at the begining of the process. ? ?In RDz I can subpress the first two, but this causes other issues. ? ? ? ?When I get ready to upda...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Endevor - switch order of selection fields to match TSO on the mainframe.

On the mainframe type always follows element. On RDz Type is always before Element. I can make a case for either way so I am not sure there is a correct way. CA felt that Element should be first bcause that is the way all their screens are. The pr...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

User build in RDz v9

The new functionnality "user build" in RDz 9 should be under the control of the permissions managed in RTC.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Endevor editor needs option to GENERATE at save time.

In the Endevor CARMA editor, there needs to be an option to do a batch generate at SAVE time. I know that there are other ways to do a GENERATE from RDZ, but on our Endevor ISPF system, the GENERATE is automatically done at save time. I think with...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration