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IBM Developer for z/OS

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RDz zUnit Enhancement - be easy and intuitive to use for the developer

More UI for more code generation is required for the test case program coding. It should further minimize the deveoloper effort to code the Test runner.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

In RDz, have the LPEX editor default to the ISPF profile

The default profile for LPEX is the lpex profile. For RDz, however, the lpex profile is rarely used, and most users need the ISPF profile by default. This would help increase the adoption rate by the user community. If this cannot be done, then RD...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Support RD&T running on virtualization environment such as VMWare vSphere.

Customer's their own IT policy is to use virtualization environment instead of buying new HW. So, they strongly want to run Rational Development and Test Environment (RD&T) on virtualization environments. But now, IBM doesn't support it yet. W...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Bi-directional (BiDi) text is not taken into account in job output.

In RDz, use of Bi-Directional (BiDi) set of characters is not possible in the Job output. (Messages are returned from left to right while written right to left).
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Code Coverage feature doesn't work for non-LE enabled assembler

The Code Coverage feature, probably created for ALL RDZ/Debug Tool supported languages, does not work for non-LE enabled assembler programs.The EQANMDBG interface for non-LE assembler has to recognize the EQA_STARTUP_KEY. It does not. It lack the ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Edition partielle de table DB2 impossible

La selection partielle de lignes d'une table DB2 en ?dition est impossible.TSO PST le permet.La seule possibilit? est d'utiliser SQL, mais ceci n'est pas s?curis? car on ne sait jamais par avance le nb de lignes qui vont ?tre modifi?es, au contrai...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Tool to monitor RDz Host activity

A unique place or interface to snapshot or monitor RDz activity and all involved components.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

Allow to import projects with 'existing' name.

You can not import a project if such a name 'exists' in the workspace. A few times my project was 'hidden' and I was not able to import from a different workspace. Basically, I suggest to treat projects the same way as files. Prompt if user wants ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Backup - add to Preferences to select how often, how many copies

Currently, if I want to backup my workspace I have to do it manually. This is request to add such a feature to Preferences and be able to specify how often I want to backup, where to keep the copy and how many copies I want to keep - the same way ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Evolution de l'?diteur COBOL

Bonjour,Parmi les fonctionnalit?s de l'?diteur COBOL de RDz, ?diteur que fait ?voluer IBM, nous ne retrouvons pas des fonctionnalit?s importantes de l'?diteur LPEX.1) Il est impossible d'utiliser la fonction "Demarrer le marquage du composant". C'...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration