Developer for System z, Version 7.6.x

# z/OS Integrated Development Environment (zIDE)

zIDE contains the following new features:

- Projects and subprojects:
  - Rational® Developer for System z® provides you with more flexibility for associating high-level qualifiers with MVS™ subprojects. When you import a project into Rational Developer for System z, you can now change the high-level qualifier associated with MVS subprojects. You can also change the high-level qualifier associated with an MVS subproject after it has been created.
  - New safeguards have been added to prevent users from accidentally deleting resources from a remote system when their intent is to remove them from a subproject. The Delete action has been updated to provide a confirmation message before deleting resources from the remote system.
- Integration with Rational Team Concert™ for System z:
  - Rational Team Concert for System z can obtain status updates for resources shared with Rational Developer for System z. This enhancement enables resources shared by the two systems to remain synchronized.
- Remote Resource Access API: A new event type reports an impending deletion of a resource. This event enables an API client to take an action on a resource's deletion before it is actually deleted.
- Property groups: You can edit an associated property group from the pop-up menu of a resource in the z/OS® Projects view or Remote Systems view. Previously you had to open the property group editor from the Property Group Manager view.
- Programming support:
  - Users can create CICS® debug configurations on the workstation and upload them to the remote system to create DTCN debug profiles for invoking the IBM® Debug Tool. CICS debug configurations make it easier for users to create and manage debug profiles.
  - A new DCLGEN wizard helps you generate COBOL copybooks and PL/I include files from DB2® database tables that you connect to from Rational Developer for System z.
  - Local syntax checks now use the compiler front-end components that are shipped with COBOL and PL/I importers in Rational Application Developer.
  - zIDE now enables you to automatically open or submit JCL after JCL generation.
  - The System z LPEX editor can now flag errors in EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL statements in PL/I programs.
  - Parsing of EXEC SQL statements in COBOL source code has been improved, and the parser now recognizes the REPLACE keyword.
  - For PL/I and COBOL, default compile options can be specified in the PARM card of the JCL compile procedure. Compile options specified in property groups are passed as values for JCL procedure variables and appended to the default compile options. Ensure that you do not duplicate the default compile options specified in the JCL compile procedure, with the compile options specified in your property group. Duplication increases the possibility of exceeding the 100-character PARM card limit and generating a JCL error.
- Remote Job Monitor: When you issue a purge, hold, or cancel action on a JES job in either the Remote Systems view or the Remote System Details view, Rational Developer for System z displays a status bar message indicating that the command has been issued and changes the job status icon to indicate that the command has been issued.
- Consumability and Usability: Several changes to the user interface make working in zIDE more efficient and more familiar to users who are new to the z/OS environment:
  - You can customize the Remote Systems view to show only a portion of partitioned data set members. This enhancement improves the performance of the Remote Systems view when opening large partitioned data sets.
  - You can customize the Remote System view and the z/OS Projects view to sort z/OS resources by type (partitioned data sets followed by sequential data sets) or by data set name.
  - Commands for allocating partitioned data sets, sequential data sets, and generation data groups, and for creating partitioned data set members and defining aliases have been moved to the New submenu of the Remote Systems view and z/OS Projects view pop-up menus.
  - zIDE now issues a warning message before opening large sequential data sets, partitioned data set members, and local files. This message gives you the opportunity to continue or cancel the open operation.
- Performance: zIDE processes remote search results more efficiently so that results are returned more quickly.

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