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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

Adjust the time for zAware from UTC to local (eastern)

I started by opening PMR 34594 082 000 and was told that I needed to open a RFE. Customer want you to adjust the time in zAware from UTC to local time (eastern)
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 2 Future consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 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

Allow to specify a sender email address for zAware

Development confirmed that zAware email feature automatically replaces the sender email address with NO-REPLY. This is a problem for most mail servers as they reject emails without a properly qualified sender email address. Please allow the user t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration

zAware vendor key expirations

Change the fixed vendor key expiration date from December 31st to March 31st annually.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Planned for future release

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

ZAware Alerting by Specific System

Need to be able to ignore alerting on specific systems or change alerting filters for specific systems. For example we are sending operlog to zAware from some of our test and developement systems .... but they generally have many anomalies . When ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration