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    Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System"

    Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System".
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Not under consideration

    Multiple places for CodePage-Configuration in RDz

    When configuring a new installation of RDz, you have to change the codepage for the host-connection three times (but only for non-us-codepages):1) In View "Remote Systems",right klick on connection, "Properties",choose "Host" on left side, Default...
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Not under consideration

    RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only

    RFE IDz Remote Systems View should be able to sort datasets alphabetical by dataset name only and not by type-based order like when listing a mix of non-migrated and migrated (DFSMShsm HMIGRATE) datasets. This is currently by design. No doubt, if ...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

    RSE idle timeout for edit and browse file as separate configuration (not as common config)

    Hello, Recently we have changed the idle session time out to 15 minutes in IBM explorer for z/OS(RSED AQUA), this had resulted in problem for certain developers and analysts as it frequently timeout when they switch back and forth between IDE and ...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

    COMMIT does not free up the locks owned by all DB2 threads

    We have a program with VSAM files migrated to DB2 via CICS VSAM Transparency. These files are read & updated each with their own unique DIM per file. The mainline program is calling a new dynamic subroutine which handles all of the commits by ...
    almost 10 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Extend JMON for performance configuration

    Depending on how a user set up his JES filter there could be a huge cpu usage seen for JMON started task. Think of a JES filter all values set to '*' and / or a regular refresh every 5 seconds.There should be configuration options to reduce perfor...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

    improving the data cleansing/testing capabilities for CICS VT

    It would be helpful if DMF could provide more information about differences in data when it finds them. When running against large files in batch for testing. When the records are long, dumping 32 bytes of data before and after the error is not en...
    over 10 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    data set concatenation on remote z/os file search

    The Remote z/OS File search should act similar as ISRSUPC in ISPF/SCLM and get an option to search concatenated (like in SCLM). When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialog, please add an option (checkbox) to re...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

    Sort Tabs in Remote Shell View

    When we have several tabs open in the the Remote Shell view, it would be very helpful if we could sort them in the same way as we can sort the tabs in the editor.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

    Allow VT to reference Alliases

    Customer programs reference table aliases rather than base tables. CICS VT should provide a mechanism to work with DB2 alias names as well as base table names.
    almost 14 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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