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    Cannot create a COM folder on Windows

    Windows do not create folders named COM1 to COM9: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#invalidfilefoldernames https://answe...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

    Code review in batch for a pipeline so slow that it can't be used

    I've set up and been configuring AKGCR, Code Review, in batch to be used in our cobol pipeline.On zos we are using idz 14.2.1 and on the client we are using 14.2.1.1When I submit my jcl it takes a couple of minutes to complete, even though it is a...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Continue commenting when inserting a line break within a comment

    Hi IBM, when you edit a comment in a COBOL source in the COBOL editor and you hit ENTER (aka you insert a new line), the new line should be automatically a comment line. At the moment, the cursor is being positioned on the beginning of the text in...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

    In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank l...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

    IDz DBB user build errs if the user log is deleted during the DBB User build dialog

    When running an IDz DBB user build, if the user's log file is deleted or removed, the build fails with org.eclipse.core.runtime.OperationCanceledException The design in the IDz DBB user build is to locate the log file when it is named in the dialo...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Implement support for Deleting / Renaming RCE host sessions

    When performing Window->Editor->Clone on a RCE session it will duplicate the current RCE session and you can name the new session what ever you like. This can be done several times to create multiple RCE sessions. The next time a user opens ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

    IDz: Allow IDZ user build variables to be generated from RTC language definition/translator instead of manually via IDz Prefs

    In an IDz user build, DDNAMEs using variables as STEP RCs in a build have to be defined manually in the context of the z/os project.Normally, the STEPS and initBuild are defined as properties of the language definition by navigating to IDz Window/...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

    Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

    When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

    Option to disable automatic file association.

    Provide an option to disable the automatic file association that is done when opening a file that does not meet any z/OS File Mapping criteria. Since the PMR ID field above doesn't accept the new TS ID format, here it is: TS002715273
    about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

    Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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