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Visibility to current CPU use by user in RSED address space

From PMR TS003198624 (the new format is not allowed in the PMR field.) With TSO, CICS, and Batch, I have visibility to see detail about TSO logons, CICS transactions, and batch jobs with our ASG-TMON monitors or other monitoring solution. Every no...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 2 Delivered

Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Sort for entry date in jes spool monitor

We want to have the option to sort the job output in the jes spool monitor in remote system view by entry date, so that the latest jobout is shown at the beginning.With IDz 14.2 the sort order of job output is by jobid, but this is not a usefull s...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered

Confirmation pop-up for JES commands (HOLD, RELEASE, CANCEL and PURGE) passed on jobs not owned by the same USERID

Thankfully not often but we have some times users that CANCEL/PURGE jobs in mass in "Active Jobs" filter in JES and disconnect a lot of others users. For the need of "Show JCL" commands, we have left the parameter LIMIT_COMMANDS to "NOLIMIT" and t...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Direct access to members and datasets using Menu Manager

Menu Manager should have the ability to directly open members and datasets in editor or give a result set in Remote Console with a list of clickable links to members and datasets from which the user can open then in editor. For example the respons...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Errors in rsecomm logs when debugger is not active

To avoid error messages in rsecomm logsit should be possible to set the debugger manager.jar as comment in the RSE configuration file: rsed.envvars:#CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$RSE_LIB/debug_miner.jar This, to avoid loading the debug manager and therefo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 5 Delivered

Multi Factor Authorization support in RDZ

I opened up PMR 81094,L6Q,000 regarding RDz's support of MFA(Multi Factor Authentication) and it was suggested I open an RFE as RDz does not yet or can not yet support this. We need this for higher strength security when connecting to our mainfram...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered

Prevent $HASP708 with new security checks

I want to ask you for implementation of a new security check (for example SDSF as Klaus goetze has explained within the pmr) in order to examine Access permission to JES spool files BEFORE JES2 security check. This "pre-validation" should prevent ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered

Alert displayed when a process is in timeout for a long time

When a process has been blocked in timeout for a certain time, it would be good to display an alert to inform users.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

Terminal support in USS remote shell

I am using IDz v 14.1.5. Noticed that for command such as generating ssh token from OMVS command line, we are able to see informational messages but when entering same command on IDz z/OS Unix shell, those messages are not visible. For example: OM...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 3 Delivered