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RDz support for Mac

Currently, RDz runs on a Windows machine and Linux (I believe). I would like to see RDz (and all plug-ins) like DataStudio, IA, etc. run on a Mac machine.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

if the copy commend in eclipse so that low values in the middle of the data will not stop the copy.

There is a problem when coping from documents that have non display character - see attached in PMRm for examples
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

JES should be able to show queue number for a job

When looking into Remote System details on a Jes Job Filter a lot of information is show. However one thing is missing, and that's if a job is in the input queue, which number is it in the queue. Today developers have to logon to the tso in order ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

missin jcl procstep information in the RDz

in ispf sdsf a column procstep is shown in the table. this information is missing in the RDz. in some cases that leads to datasets in the jes output you can not distinguish from each other. witch dataset is from witch step in the proc?
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

More functionality to JES "browser" enhancements

Add more functions to the Jes browser in IDz. 1) Not able to see CPU time when using "show in table"2) We want to see the Syslog3) When looking at an sysout and hovering over a dataset it would be nice to be able to "jump" to that dataset. (clicka...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

increase -Xms512m -Xmx1536m -Xmnx64m value in eclipse.ini

the default values in eclipse.ini for-Xms512m-Xmx1536m-Xmnx64mare to low - every time the customer installs ID/z they need to increase them to be able to use ID/z with their growing size sources
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

RDz V9 CLOSES ALL OPEN ARTIFACTS WHEN A TIME OUT OCCURS

In version 9.0, when you are performing analysis on programs, JCL, copybooks, etc. and a time out occurs, all artifacts are closed. In previous versions of RDz, a time out of the z/OS connection left the programs, copybooks, JCL and all tabs open....
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Show the length of a cobol variable or group

It would be good to find the size of a cobol working storage entry somewhere. For example in the tool tip. Or in the data elements table. Or in a new view. Sometimes it is neccessary to count the number of bytes used for a variable. This is easy f...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Update the System Z Data Editor to handle files that have large data record lengths

Enhance the System Z Data Editor to handle files with record lenghts greater than 5,000 bytes. The current editor starts having problems with records of this length. Per the comments in the PMR this problem comes from the limitation of SWT which i...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered