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JDK latest and greatest lifecyclemanagement

IDz is considered as a threat for our mission critical applications by our security depertment because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 11 This version is considered out of date and does not receive the more structural security enhance...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered
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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...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Delivered

iDz 'Real-Time Syntax Checking' has only COBOL v.5.1 option available

In iDz under the Preferences -> COBOL -> Features -> Real-Time Syntax Checking, under the 'Validate against compiler versions' it seems that Enterprise COBOL V5.1 is default and nothing else is selectable.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Request to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse.

Customer is requesting to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse to enable Co-pilot. Current version doesn't support enabling co-pilot, which is one of the blockers to drive adoption. Co-pilot makes coding easier as it has enhanced IntelliSense fe...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

IDz Host Connection Emulator (HCE) with Auto-Connect

To be able to implement "auto-connect" on HCE (like we can do on PCOM) for users who have automatic management of their account (and password)
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Delivered

Add PDS member functionality to MVS Files filters

Allow the specification of a member name (fully qualified or wild carded) with a PDS name in an MVS Files filter. Include the member name with the dataset name when expanding the MVS Files filter and limit the member list to the member name (fully...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 23 Delivered

Better support for non unique names in COBOL

zUnit needs to support non-unique names in the Test Case Editor. Today it is partly supported. If you have a data structure like:01 A 02 B PIC x(10) 02 REDEFINES B 03 B PIC S9(4) BINARY 03 D PIC PIC X(8). 02 C PIC X. 02 C PIC X.The last occurrence...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Delivered

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

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

Edit Popup in Debug perspective

In the popup window doing mouse hover on a variable i need to edit, copy , paste the value
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

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