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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 17, 2010

RELATED IDEAS

Change length allowed for "Flagging Changed Lines"

The feature for adding "changed lines" tags is a very useful one. When we change code here, we do it based on a Program Tracking Report number. That number is of the format AAAnnnnnb. It would be very useful to us to have that many characters allowed in the mask that is user supplied to RD/z. RD/z currently allows only 7 characters for the user supplied value.

It would also be useful if RD/z allowed a "block" comment to be inserted before "new" code and have the user define the format of the block comment. In our case, we use something like this:

/*-------------------------------------*/
/* PTRnnnnna starts here */
/*--------------------------------------*/

Then we put a block at the end of the new code by copying the above and subbing END for START.

Idea priority Low
  • 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
    |     Mar 21, 2011

    The requested information was not provided and the RFE is being closed.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 11, 2011

    Can you please try the following - Change the autocomment profile to allow more characters (Preference page: Autocomment, then click on Edit to edit the appropriate profile, or Add to create a new profile). On the panel you will be able to specify Min and Max length. Please let us know if this works. Thanks.

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