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A right-click on a z/OS Project triggers duplicated calls to the host which slows down the display of the context menu

For example if a z/OS project contains 3 datasets like BUILDER.TEST.LISTING BUILDER.TEST.SRC.COBOL BUILDER.TEST.GENRTED.JCL debug level 2 is enabled on the server side. The user logs in and right-click on the z/OS Project. His rsecomm log shows 2 ...
about 21 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

JDK latest and greatest lifecyclemanagement

IDz is considered as a threat for our mission critical applications by our security depertment because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 11 This version is considered out of date and does not receive the more structural security enhance...
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file

IDz v16.0.2 DB2 sql result is there any way to view sql result in text format like this similar to qmf and spufy shows as simple text file.Refer TS016428390
7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Moving Not responding message at top of window to status bar as in progress and not to freeze the window

The IDZ 16.0.4 hanges in regular activities very randomly, while opening or comparing big size files in git repository. Please check the stack trace in the attached case.
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

LPEX / Eclipse : Enable context-sensitive help for C/C++ and assembler

The functionality is already present for Cobol and PL/I - it seems logical to also have it for C/C++ and assembler (at least for the IBM macros, but would certainly be cool for individual instructions too). In a nutshell, place cursor on "printf",...
7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
8 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Enable File manager in IDZ to work with MFA enabled

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.
13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

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