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Status Not under consideration
Categories Editors
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 28, 2019

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple line
For example -
ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")
FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE"
This is perfectly valid statement but editor is not able recognize the statements spanning multiple lines. Apparently there's no Rexx parser which can reliably highlight the source code.
It will be great if this feature can be added to a future release.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 5, 2019

    This RFE is a duplicate of existing RFE

  • Guest
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    Oct 14, 2019

    This RFE requires further review as it may not be a duplicate of http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=73982 .

  • Guest
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    Oct 7, 2019

    .This RFE is a duplicate of existing RFE
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=73982 .

  • Guest
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    Sep 2, 2019

    We need a real REXX editor like the ones for PL/I and JCL - that would be a really nice extention to the IDz tool.