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    Enable the RSE API to support exact (non‑wildcard) PDS member queries without requiring pagination headers.

    Customers frequently need to filter or retrieve a single, exact PDS member, but the current RSE API rejects non‑wildcard member queries whenever any pagination headers are included, which prevents IBM Z Open Editor and Zowe Explorer from supportin...
    1 day ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

    Implement support in RSE API to allow GDG generations to be referenced by relative index number.

    As of RSE API 1.2.3 we have support for Generation Data Sets (GDS) in data set queries. A new GET command (datasets/{gdgName}/GDSList) has been added to retrieve the list of GDS names for a specific Generation Data Group (GDG). It would be useful ...
    18 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

    Please add a "COPY membername" command to IMS DDL that would allow us to include copybooks containing commonly used PCBs (SCHEMAs)

    This idea would better align with how traditional PSB source is managed in our shop. We rely on the COPY command supported by the Assembly of the PSB in the PSBGEN process. A similar capability for DDL would ease the transition to DDL.
    about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

    Default/global filter expansion value

    When setting up custom filters within the Remote Systems pane, it would be very convenient for there to be a setting to allow you to set the default expansion amount for new filters. Currently, all new filters have an expansion value of 50, so any...
    3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Functionality already exists

    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 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Future consideration

    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 ...
    3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

    IMS log takes advantage of zHyperLink feature

    Hi there, It has been a while since the IMSSS-I-222 raised. (https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IMSSS-I-222) . Could you please reconsider the idea? This will make IMS's performance unmatched, and Db2 /VSAM have taken advantage the ...
    4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

    Enable MPPs and BMPs to connect to first *available* member of a Db2 data-sharing group

    Right now, when using Db2 group-attach feature of IMS, BMP and MPP regions support only connecting to the very first member listed in Db2 group attach name table. If the first member of the group is unavailable, then no connection at all can be ma...
    4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Support for DLI or DBB batch regions to get PSB/DBD metadata from IMS staging directory.

    Hi, We have quarterly releases where we bring down IMS and run our database change reorgs. While our IMS systems were non managed ACBs, our multi step reorgs run IC and unloads using metadata from DBDLIB.CURR and reload, index builder and post IC ...
    5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Under review

    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...
    6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Future consideration

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