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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 16, 2020

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Change mfivarsubsaction in Menu Manger to not remember previous entries

We use Menu Manager for a lot of custom actions within IDz, including actions to interact with our SCM, Endevor. We give users the ability to right click a module in the Remote Systems view and select from a range of Endevor actions, like add to Endevor or move to another Endevor region. These work very well when you only have to do it once, but when associates want to use a few in a row, instead of the module they right click on being the module that will be affected, the previous entry from the last menu manager action is still there. Associates then need to go to the variable substitution popup and manually change the variable there.

We would appreciate if remembering the previous entry for these types of menu manager actions could be toggled off. This would allow people to right click multiple modules in a row, click okay, and have the action work without causing submission issues.

I have talked with Bill Alexander about this as well and he has confirmed this was a hardcoded feature due to a customer request in the past. I can provide more examples of our

Thank you so much for the help!

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 27, 2020

    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.

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