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Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Client Install
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2010

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Allow editing of Mainframe files within RDz without doing EBCDIC to ASCII conversion and using a third party editior

RDz does an EBCDIC to ASCII conversion of data when trying to view a file. Some data on the mainframe is in ASCII format and the conversion makes the data unreadable within RDz. There needs to be a option to not do the data conversion on files. This could also be true of any file that has fields defined in COBOL as binary numeric fields. This data would be changed during the conversion. Once we have access to the data we would like to be able to select an outside editor to use if we choose to. None of the editors within RDz allow for the HEX support that we need to do the file editing we want. We have a tool called Ultra-Edit that does this well. It would be our choice to be able to select the editor we want to use.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     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
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    |     Jun 7, 2010

    This RFE has been delivered in a previous release. Please see the following links on our infocenter help page.
    Round-trip integrity of MVS files ----> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.zide.cmn.doc/topics/czdround.html

    Remote to local file mapping ----> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.zide.cmn.doc/topics/czdcmn044.html

    For Hex support within RDz please vote on the following RFE's open to address the request (RATLC01425104 and RATLC01423766). Thanks.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 29, 2010

    MikeU, have you tried right-clicking the file in Remote Systems view and using Properties > Mapping to set the code page? If the remote file is UTF-8, for instance, set the remote and local codepage to UTF-8. Then no conversion will be done.

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