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Add the capability to overrule/override a specific file to transfer it as binary

Add the capability to overrule/override a specific file to transfer it as binary.The capability to specify file transfer type explicitly in dialog makes sense, as well as a capability see the transfer information for a file/member seems apt.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Default View for Search

Currently, when a user clicks on Search, the default view is on the Remote z/OS Search tab. We'd like to have the option of making the Remote z/OS File Search tab as the default.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Eclipse Style COBOL Editor in IDz not Complaining About Empty ELSE statement

The z/OS COBOL compiler complains if an ELSE block contains no code. This is ok. The Eclipse Style COBOL editor does not complain if an ELSE block contains no code. This is not good because in such a case the programmers only notice their mistake ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Delivered

Add CPU consumption in view ?Properties? and ?Remote System Details? for JES

When I submitted a job to JES I can find many information in view “Properties” and “Remote System Details” (see captrue3.jpg), but nothing about CPU consumption. In TSO we have PAGING, SIO, CPU% and CPU-TIME (see captrue4.jpg). I will be useful if...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

Support Pack On dataset in IDz

Need support of "Pack On" dataset in RDz/IDz.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Enhancement to allow Control-flow to work for when there is no space between subscript

We have a lot of code in Production where there is no space after the comma in statements using subscripts. The code is in copybooks as well as programs, Cobol compiled gives a warning but successfully creates the load module. However Program Cont...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Sonar integration

Hello, Euro Information is involved in DevOps process and as a consequence needs to facilitate quality analysis directly when developers are coding their Cobol programs. Sonar is one of the leaders in this domain and we want to make it possible fo...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Support for Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS

Currently RDz does not support Extended Address Volume (EAV) on z/OS. This is a major inhibitor to the adoption of RDz in z/OS host application development, since host data sets on EAV cannot be accessed via RDz.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

add an option in zUnit test case to reinitialize the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION before running each test entry

There is a zUnit limitation documented in IDz 14.1: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_14.1.0/com.ibm.etools.rdz.zunit.doc/topics/r_limitations.html "zUnit does not initialize data item of WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. When running zUni...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Request for a new function to record and store all input and output data at run time whether the test result is pass or fail

In Japan IDz users have not adopted zUnit. The reason is that they use COBOL Unit Test Tool before zUnit launch. COBOL Unit Test Tool is GBS IP asset and implemented as an eclipse plugin. However, they cannot use it with next IDz, because it uses ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Delivered

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