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Add user profile global parameter for filtering

enhancement to RDz to allow for the creation of a global parameter to the store RACF ID of the user in a profile that can then be changed in one place as opposed to forcing the user to go to each filter when they are using a template workspace tha...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor Shortcuts preferences page

You can submit JCL within LPEX with Shortcut <cntl>+<i>. On RSE <cntl>+<alt>+<m> is the shortcut for submitting JCL. Please offer a preference page to edit the LPEX Key preferences/bindings.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Associate Property Group in RDz does not permit multiple selections even though Check Boxes are used.

In the "Associate Property Group" window, the list of possible Property Groups are listed with Check Boxes. However, only a single Property Group may be selected.Seems to me that Radio Buttons should be used instead of Check Boxes as Radio Buttons...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDz to support a property group configuration wizard

It is always a roadblock for users to adopt RDz due to property group setup. Without proper setup, user will missed out lot of good features such as syntax check, generate JCL, show dependency, etc. The current way to setup property group still re...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz zUnit Enhancement - support batch and online execution

RDz zUnit should be enhanced to support CICS online execution. The current approach need to use batch to trigger a EXCI and then link to a online CICS transaction. This is not practical as usually the CICS online program will not be the starting p...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 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).
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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