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.
- For PL/I and COBOL, you can specify default options for the compiler
in the PARM card of the JCL compilation procedure. Compiler options
specified in property groups are passed as values for JCL procedure
variables and appended to the default compiler options. Ensure that
you do not duplicate the default compiler options specified in the
JCL compilation procedure with the compiler 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:
- Performance: zIDE processes remote search results more
efficiently so that results are returned more quickly.