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RSEAPI Add Support to Append Data to Files and Datasets

Currently there is no API to append to existing files/datasets. PUT /content and/rawContent for MVS and UNIX only replaces the contents. This idea would be to add an optional request header that lets you choose between "replace" and "append" for t...
3 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Submitted

Member Versions should not get Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz

Case updated by IBM - TS020854199 26 November 2025, 09:12 AM CST - Severity 3 Case Title Member Versions Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz IBM Support Commented Hello Naren Thanks for opening this case. I have checked ...
11 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
25 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
28 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

DB2 in IDZ - improving RSE tables performance

Currently, when working with RSE tables in IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz), some operations are performed on the main thread as part of the existing design.For example, in order to determine which columns will be displayed in the table, it executes q...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Add ability to use --vs volume serial with RSEAPI CLI

zOpen Editor, ZOWE RSEAPICLI, Zowe Explorer, RSEAPI This option is available in Zowe CLI with z/OSMF, but it is not available for RSE with RSEAPI CLI - Zowe RSE Extension. This request is to add the volume serial option so it can be used with the ...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

RSEAPI/RSE should not alter the 'referenced date' of datasets when they are listed via z/OS Explorer (Eclipse/VS Code).

When users list Datasets through Eclipse/VSCode, the "referenced date" for all listed datasets are inadvertently updated to the current date. This happens even though no dataset was browsed, viewed or edited. This behavior has a significant impact...
4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration