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special non-IBM Enterprise COBOL statement

Compile of program was successful but using RDZ it got parsing errors
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

RFE of formatting support for multi-byte COBOL editor

When I use Developer for System z, the following limitation is written. Windows>Preferences>COBOL>Editor>Formatter Indentation Tab : "Note : Indentation formatting is supported for single bytes character set source encoding only" I'd l...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.

MODIFY SEND command should work for DBCS code pages.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Compatability Scan when migrating to new COBOL versions

We would like to have a batch interface to RDz which could scan our Cobol Source Libraries for incompatablity scenarios. we would like this feature to be able to run as a batch job on the host, so no download is required, but can be done purly in ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

Support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10

Need to support a combination of RDz HLL/WB v9.5.1 with z/OS v1.10.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Remote z/OS search - adding support for tape

Currently if you do 'Remote z/OS search', RDz can not find a dataset if it is being allocated on the tape, only if it is allocated on DASD. Please refer to PMR 93064,180,000. This is a very important feature.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 4 Not under consideration

Provide z/OS Health Checks to validate install and functionality

RDz should come with z/OS Health Checks that validate that RDZ is functional so that usability is automatically validated after every IPL or restart.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Remote z/OS search - instead of 'Searching MVS files' screen specify selection criteria

While search is performed in 'Remote z/OS search' you receive a pop-up screen 'Searching MVS files'. Instead, could you please specify what is being searched for?
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

CARMA - refresh CARMA/Endevor Repository at connection time

When I start RDz the CARMA/Endevor Repository do not gets refreshed automatically at connection time. You have to do manual 'Refresh'. This is request to add authomatic refresh.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 4 Not under consideration

RSE - add 'remove', 'remove all' features for 'Retrieved Data Sets' filter

In 8.0.3.1 there is a new feature 'Retrieved Data set'. This is request to add features 'Remove', 'Remove multiple datasets', 'Remove all' features.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 2 Not under consideration