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.