The following release notes provide information about new
features and enhancements included in Rational® Developer for System z® Version 7.6 and lists the known
limitations in the release.
This information is for developers using Rational Developer for System z Version 7.6.x.
Hardware Requirements
For hardware and software
requirements, see the following documents:
- z/OS® host requirements: Rational Developer for System z Host Configuration
Guide
- AIX® and Linux® requirements: Rational Developer for System z RSE Server Installation Guide: AIX and Linux
- Linux on System z requirements: Rational Developer for System z RSE Server Installation Guide: Linux on System z
- Client requirements: Rational Developer
for System z Installation
Guide
Installation and Configuration
For information
on installing and configuring Rational Developer
for System z, see the following
documents:
- z/OS host installation:
Program Directory for Rational Developer
for System z
- z/OS host configuration (basic): Rational Developer for System z Host Configuration
Quick Start Guide
- z/OS host configuration (detailed): Rational Developer for System z Host Configuration
Guide
- AIX and Linux installation: Rational Developer for System z RSE Server Installation Guide: AIX and Linux
- Linux on System z installation: Rational Developer for System z RSE Server Installation Guide: Linux on System z
- Client installation: Rational Developer
for System z Installation
Guide
For the most up to date versions of the complete documentation,
including installation instructions, white papers, podcasts and tutorials,
see the library page of the Rational Developer
for System z website (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdz/library/).
Note: - The Developer for System
z installation and configuration guides (install.pdf, HHOP0760.pdf,
hostconfigqs.pdf, hostconfig.pdf, aixinstall.pdf, zlinuxinstall.pdf
and sclmdtinstallguide.pdf)) are also available on the IBM Rational Developer for System z documentation CD.
- The Host installation and configuration guides ((HHOP0760.pdf,
hostconfigqs.pdf, hostconfig.pdf, aixinstall.pdf, zlinuxinstall.pdf
and sclmdtinstallguide.pdf)) are also available on the IBM Rational Developer for System z z/OS SMPE
Installation CD.
Version 7.6.1 Updates
For information on
new features and limitations in the Rational Developer
for System z version 7.6.1,
see the following summary:
Enhancements for version 7.6.1
Limitations for version 7.6.1
Enterprise
Service Tools
- For single-service project tools:
Compiled language debugger
C/C++ Language Support
- Limitation: When editing C/C++ sequential
data sets, language functions such as content assist, open definition,
open declaration, open header file, and outline view are not functional
in either Remote C/C++ Editor or System
z LPEX Editor.
Version 7.6.0.1 Updates
For information
on new features in the Rational Developer
for System z version 7.6.0.1,
see the following summary:
z/OS Integrated
Development Environment
- Rational Developer
for System z 7.6.0.1 integrates
with Rational Team Concert™ for System z 2.0.0.2.
Customers who have installed Rational Developer
for System z 7.6.0.1 and
want to integrate with Rational
Team Concert for System
z need to install Rational
Team Concert for System
z 2.0.0.2.
- You can save a remote z/OS search
query that contains a file content search string.
- The JES Purge and Cancel operations require the user to manually
refresh the Remote Systems view or Remote System Details view to remove
the purged or canceled jobs from these views. Messages for the Cancel,
Hold, Purge, and Release menu items have been changed as follows:
Table 1. Updated messages for Cancel, Hold, Purge and ReleaseVersion 7.6.0 Message |
Version 7.6.0.1 Message |
CRRZI9005I Job {0} has been canceled. |
CRRZI9005I Cancel has been issued for job {0}. |
CRRZI9008I Job {0} has been held. |
CRRZI9008I Hold has been issued for job {0}. |
CRRZI9016I Job {0} has been purged. |
CRRZI9016I Purge has been issued for job {0}. |
CRRZI9017I Job {0} has been released. |
CRRZI9017I Release has been issued for job {0}. |
- JES job and step output are opened using the System z LPEX Editor. When you double-click
a job or step output file (.spool file) in the
Remote Systems view or Remote System Details view, the file opens
in the System z LPEX editor.
- Local syntax check now works with linked resources. When your
copy files or include files reside in a linked folder, such as on
a LAN drive, you do not need to make a separate copy of these files
in your workspace. When you specify your SYSLIB concatenation in the
property group for a compilation, you can use paths relative to the
workspace.
- z/OS UNIX® subprojects have an import/export mechanism
that is different from the import/export mechanism for z/OS projects. z/OS UNIX subprojects will not be included
in an exported z/OS project
and must be imported and exported separately using the context menu
item for z/OS UNIX subprojects.
- The following help topics have been updated for this release.
The topics are included in this readme for your information. Because
they are included here outside of the context of the information center,
the links in the topics will not work.
Enterprise Service Tools
The following updates
should be made to the online help for the Enterprise Service Tools
component:
- For single-service project tools:
- In the two topics titled "XML Converters tab", in the description
of the XMLPARSE option, in the sentence "This
option is valid only if Compiler Level is set
to 4.1", add "or higher" to the end of the sentence.
- In the topic "XML Transformation for CICS® project", in the last bullet, Scenario:
Create New XML Transformation (bottom-up) XML
Transformation for CICS only, replace "bottom-up"
with "top-down".
- For service flow project tools:
SCLM Developer Toolkit- An auto refresh project feature has been added so that filters
can be updated automatically. This feature can be enabled through
SCLM preferences. Valid polling intervals are between 1 and 180 minutes.
- Content assist and the ability to open copybooks are now both
available when editing SCLM members through the SCLM Developer Toolkit.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException errors in local helps
This
fixpack includes fixes to a few XML format errors present in the help
text of the product infocenter help. These errors were causing an
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException error message to be displayed instead
of the expected help text. The following is an example of such an
error message (but omitting much of the lengthy location-specific
message text):
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The value of attribute "content" associated with an
element type "meta" must not contain the '<' character.
The affected help modules are in the Language Reference
Documents section and the Tools Reference Documents section of the
product infocenter help:
- PL/I for Windows® Programming
Guide
- Enterprise PL/I for z/OS
- High-Level Assembler
- Debug Tool for z/OS Version
9.1
If you are using Web-based help then you will get the fix automatically.
If you have downloaded local help then you should download the help
again to get the fixes. For information about downloading the help
content and installing it locally, see
Downloading help content with the Local Help System Updater site.
Web-based
help
Rational Developer
for System z v7.6 uses
Web delivery to provide help content. There are three methods for
accessing the help.
- Remote Access – accessing the help content on the Web,
- Intranet Access – accessing the help content from a server on
your intranet, or
- Local Access – accessing the help content locally after you download
the content and install it on your workstation.
For additional information about Web delivery, see
Web-based help content.
When you upgrade
from Rational Developer
for System z v7.5 to Rational Developer for System z v7.6, the installation
program automatically sets your help access preferences to Access
the helps remotely and automatically sets up the help
system to point to the correct Rational Developer
for System z v7.6 remote
help site. If you do not have internet access or you prefer accessing
the help content using another access method, then you need to change
your access method.
To change your access method, see Changing the way that you access help content.
To
download the help content and install locally, see Downloading help content with the Local Help System Updater site.
To install
the help content using the provided zip file, see Installing help content locally using the Local Help Updater and the RDz7.6_updateSite.zip file.
Version 7.6.0 Features and Limitations
For
information on new features and limitations in the Rational Developer for System z, see the following summary:
z/OS Integrated Development Environment
CA Endevor Software Change Manager Release 12
Service Component Architecture
CICS
COBOL for Windows
Debug Tool for z/OS
PL/I Enhanced Editing
File Manager Integration
MFS Editor
C/C++ Language Support
Advanced COBOL Editor
- Enhanced content assist to include data items declared in EXEC
SQL INCLUDE statements (for example, SQLCA) and implicitly linked CICS data structures (for example,
DFHEIBLK).
- Improved support for the COBOL LPEX Editor IMS™ snippets have been introduced to aid in the
development of COBOL IMS applications.
- Enabled open declarations, hover help, and other features for
data items referenced in EXEC SQL and EXEC CICS statements.
- Added support for real-time syntax checking of CICS and SQL code embedded in COBOL programs
- Enhanced the navigation in the COBOL LPEX Editor to use the F3
key and hyperlinking
- Enhanced content assist to include information about variable
declarations
- Limitation: The grammar used for parsing embedded SQL in COBOL
programs is not a complete DB2® for z/OS grammar and can show incorrect
warning annotations. Parsing embedded SQL using this limited grammar
is optional and can be enabled on the preferences page LPEX Editor>System
z LPEX Editor>COBOL Parser>COBOL Annotations and Tools.
- Limitation: Refactor operations are not atomic and cannot be undone.
- Limitation: The Open Perform Hierarchy operation will not be in
sync if the source file is modified or closed.
Application Deployment Manager
Software Configuration Library Manager (SCLM) Developer
Toolkit
Host Integration
AIX, Linux, and Linux on System z
Help
Updates
- The following helps have been updated to reflect last minute changes:
Web-based helps
Enterprise Service Tools
- Single-service projects
- Service flow projects