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Host Tooling Integration

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Add font and font size preference specific to IBM RDz Data Editor

IBM RDz Data Editor should have its own font settings in its own preference. Currently, the font for the Data Editor can only be mofified with other features under Windows/Preferences/General/Appearance/Colors and Font/Basic/Text Font. If it is ch...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Delivered

Add UTF-8 formatting support for Cobol and zSystems LPEX editor

Source/Format with Cobol Editor fails when RDz/RTC is used together. The editors should be usable with source stored in the RTC repository. This also happens with the local project with a UTF-8 encoded file.UTF-8 is currently not supported as a co...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

Menu Manager action from JSE

We need the ability to launch Menu Manager from the JES interface and pass the job number etc. via Menu Manager to TSO, or a job or HATS.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Suppress the "Migrate DTSP Profiles" dialogue

It would be nice and helpful, when we can set a preference to suppress "Migrate DTSP Profiles" dialogue.This preferences should be accessible from outside, so we can set it during the creation of workspace. The user must not decide, if the technic...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Delivered

display latest Job spool

With introducing the default 'Active Jobs' filter in 9.5.1, it would be good to have an option to display the latest jobspool first (last 5000 lines of spool), instead of downloading the first 5000 lines from top of the spool file.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Copybook/syslib resolving broken due migrated library

Although provided in the property group, a library was not included during resolvment of copy libraries because it was migrated. Only non-migrated libraries have been resolved. My expectation is, that IDz recalls that library implicitely.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

COBOL-like hierarchy code coverage report

The current RDz Code Coverage report is general for Java/C/Cobol in Eclipse. The more COBOL-like hierarchy report will be more helpful for customer.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Error message issued by Debug UI Daemon too cryptic

An error message is issued by the Debug UI Daemon when it fails to connect appropriately on the listening port, but the error message is not informative enough to assist a user as the cause of it. See this technote: https://www-304.ibm.com/support...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 5 Delivered

RDz 9.1+ DTCN change default Test Level - ALL to ERROR

The enhancement request is to change the default Test Level - ALL to ERROR the default option in both DTCN and RDz 9.1+ This default is in APAR - PI42404: Service for Debug Tool 13.1, but it is only for HOST not in RDz
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered

Remove the dependency between PCOMM path variable and using of MSCAPI in RDz

RDz support using MSCAPI for Host emulator connection since 8.5.1.4 client verison. However this has conflict with the PCOMM (Personal Communication) path enviornment variables (e.g. C:\Program Files\IBM\Personal Communications). The previously re...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Delivered