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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories z/OS Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2014

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RDZ PLI Editor Library Extension Point

We are currently building up a lifecycle management System for all our Mainframe artifacts using MAVEN and bamboo. For the Editing we want to use the default main IBM PLI Editor (not LPEX).

The first step now was to create PLI Language artifacts and look if it is possible to handle the artifacts with the default PLI Editor.

The Problem we face now is, that our *.inc (Include) Files are in other projects in the workspace (different folders) or in jar files on a SVN Server.

This causes the problem, that the PLI Editor is not able to find this includes.

We now have created a plugin which can dissolve the dependencies in the MAVEN Pom file, so that it is possible for us to tell the PLI Editor the Directoryies and Files, where he should look into to find the Inlcudes or other PLI Files.

Normally this information would be put into a property file, but for us this is too unflexible.

Unfortunately it was not possible to find an extension point in the PL1 Editor where we can tell the Editor the URLs to search for other Sources.

We would need such an extension point to tell Rdz where he can go looking for other sources.

About the task:

-> the pom File represents all the Dependencies of all PLI Files in one Project. So for every Project in a workspace is an extra pom File
-> if a Dependency is added all Editor Views which are editing PLI Moduls of this Project need to be told that there is a new URL where to find Sources (or lets say all of the source locations have to be refreshed). We would need an extension point for this.
-> if a Dependency is removed it is the same than above
-> using a property group is not really an option, because as we use MAVEN as our Build-Management-Tool it is a redundant position to hold informations and would lead to errors.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 24, 2022

    Thank you for taking the time to submit an enhancement for IBM Developer for z/OS. Customer input is invaluable to our products and many new functions and enhancements result from feedback. All input is very important to us to improve and server our customers.

    We realize this Request for Enhancement has been in our backlog for quite some time and it is currently still not in our roadmap for the next two years. Instead of keeping it indefinitely in our backlog we have decided to respond with a decline.

    If you would like to discuss this decision in more detail please reach our to Joy Spohn (joys@us.ibm.com). Or, you can resubmit in 12-18 months for reconsideration. Thank you again for your suggestion.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 3, 2014

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 22, 2014

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 12, 2014

    The extension point also has the advantage for other customers to use other Build-Management-Tool like Gradle, Ivy, or something else and you don't have to take care about how this systems work. It always then is the problem of the customer.

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