The following release notes provide information about new
features and enhancements included in Rational® Developer for System z® Version 8.0.1 and lists the known
limitations in the release.
Note: For release-specific information (such as problems and limitations)
for Rational Developer
for System z v8.0.1 that
did not become available until after the product documentation and
product readme were finalized, see the "Rational Developer for System z Version 8.0.1 release notes addendum"
on the library page of the
Rational Developer
for System z website (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/products/developer/systemz/library/).
This information is for developers using Rational Developer for System z Version 8.0.1 and Rational Developer for zEnterprise Version
8.0.1.
Note: For Rational Developer
for zEnterprise, use the Rational Developer
for zEnterprise quick start to start the product instead of the Rational Developer for Power
quick start.
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 Intel 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/rational/products/developer/systemz//library/).
Note: - If you are using Rational Developer
for System z, the installation
and configuration guides are also available on the IBM Rational Developer
for System z Quick Start
CD.
- If you are using Rational Developer
for System z, the Host
installation and configuration guides are also available on the IBM Rational Developer for System z z/OS Server
Installation CD.
- If you are using Rational Developer
for zEnterprise, the installation and configuration guides are also
available on the IBM Rational Developer for zEnterprise
Quick Start CD
- If you are using Rational Developer
for zEnterprise, the Host installation and configuration guides are
also available on the IBM Rational Developer for zEnterprise
Server Installation CD
Web-based helps
Context help
- When using the Rational Developer
for System z client on Windows, use F1, Ctrl-F1, or
Shift-F1 to open the context help.
- When using the Rational Developer
for System z client on Linux, use Ctrl-F1 or Shift-F1
to open the context help.
- In previous releases, accessing the context help displayed the
context help specific to your current context, and a Dynamic Help
section that showed some search results that may have been related.
In Rational Developer for System z v8.0.1, accessing
context help displays context help specific to your current context,
and a new Search link allows you to search for more results based
on the name of the view or dialog that has focus.
What's new in Version 8.0.1
New functions
have been added for IBM® Rational Developer for System z Release 8.0.1.
Version 8.0.1 enhancements
For information
on enhancements in Rational Developer
for System z, see the following
summary:
- Rational Developer
for System z version 8.0.1
uses Eclipse 3.6.1.
- When comparing COBOL or PL/I files, you are now able to focus
on differences within individual structural elements. Additionally,
the compare viewers support syntax styling, hover information, and
navigation actions such as Open Declaration and Open
Perform Hierarchy.
Language editors
- Version 8.0.1 introduces new editors for the COBOL and PL/I languages.
These are Eclipse-based editors that can share common behavior and
preferences with the Java, C++,
and other Eclipse language editors. The new editors also provide language-specific
enhancements such as syntax highlighting, refactoring and source actions,
content assist, and column-aware editing. These editors can be accessed
by using the Open With menu on a COBOL or PL/I
file or by modifying the General > Editors > File
Associations preferences for the COBOL and PL/I file-name
extensions.
- Additional content assist proposals, including SQL keywords and
database elements such as schemas, tables, and columns, can appear
when content assist is used within an EXEC SQL statement. A data connection
profile configured in Data Source Explorer, and enabled for local
syntax checking, is required.
- While syntax checking in the System
z LPEX, COBOL and PL/I editors, database schema, table, and column
references in statically invoked EXEC SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE,
and UPDATE statements are verified. A data connection profile configured
in Data Source Explorer, the use of DECLARE TABLE statements, or both,
are required.
- Repeatedly invoking content assist will toggle the presentation
between the default proposals and the new template proposals. You
can customize templates by using the COBOL > Templates and PL/I > Templates preference
pages.
CICS Explorer™
- Credentials management has been enhanced in CICS Explorer so that you can specify
one set of credentials for each CICS® primary
connection region instead of having to specify credentials for each
region separately.
Enterprise Service Tools
Version 8.0.1 limitations and known problems
For
information on limitations and known problems in the Rational Developer for System z, see the following summary:
- Limitation: Problems are incorrectly reported while trying to
save the state of the workbench. Problems that occur during the save
operation do not impact the users data and you should ignore the error
message.
z/OS Integrated
Development Environment
Service Component Architecture
CICS
File Manager Integration
COBOL Language Support
- Limitation: When using the System
z LPEX Editor, refactor operations are not automatic and cannot
be undone.
- Limitation: When using either the System z LPEX Editor or the COBOL Editor,
the Open Perform Hierarchy operation will not be in sync if the source
file is modified or closed.
- Limitation: Remote DBCS characters are not supported by the COBOL
Editor. Files encoded in a DBCS code page can only be opened as read-only.
Use the System z LPEX
Editor to edit these files.
- Limitation: Remote bidirectional characters are not supported
by the COBOL Editor. Files encoded in a bidirectional code page can
only be opened as read-only. Use the System z LPEX Editor to edit these files.
PL/I Language Support
C/C++ Language Support
- Limitation: Using mixed code pages with C/C++ files may result
in content assist proposals not being correctly returned from the
host, and Open definition and declaration may not operate as expected.
- Limitation: Content assist, Open declaration, Open Definition,
Open header files and the Outline view do not operate as expected
for C/C++ files that contain sequence numbers.
- Limitation: Remote Index Search does not support searching DBCS
or bi-directional files.
Compiled language debugger
Common Access Repository Manager (CARMA)
- Limitation: When a z/OS subproject
is associated with CARMA at the RAM level, CARMA will lose the ability
to update project properties at the subproject level. CARMA will still
retain the ability to update project properties at the data set and
member levels.
Application Deployment Manager
Software Configuration Library Manager (SCLM) Developer
Toolkit
Host Integration
AIX, Linux, and Linux on System z
Bidirectional support
- Limitation: Some of the features in Rational Developer for System z v8.0.1 do not have bidirectional
support.
Enterprise Service Tools
- Single-service projects
- Service flow projects