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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 23, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Automatically populate the "Data Type" when running a selected DB2 statement

Since the previous "Value"s are stored after running a selected DB2 statement, it would be helpful if the "Data Type"s of these host variable would be retained. This would be especially useful for queries with several conditions. It seems as though it would be easy to interpret the equivalent DB2 data type since the data type of the host variable will have already been defined

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 4, 2024
    Thank you for submitting your Idea! We greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. We're excited to inform you that your submission has been successfully processed and included in IBM Developer for z/OS 16.0.6 and 17.0!

    To learn more about the latest updates, please check out the following resources:

    IBM Developer for z/OS 16.0.6 Blog - https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/andrew-tram/2024/11/22/giving-thanks-for-innovation-idz1606

    IBM Developer for z/OS 17.0 Blog - https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/andrew-tram/2024/10/18/ibm-developer-for-zos-170-slays-with-major-eclipse
  • Guest
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    |     May 13, 2024
    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an Idea 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 in line with our product strategy and we added it as a candidate for future releases of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

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