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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...
43 minutes ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Submitted

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

Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

Display jobs and their DDs in table view

The Remote System Explorer tree view displays jobs under the JES filter and when expanded it displays the DDs under each job. A customer would like a similar display but in table view. It is possible to display the jobs or the DDs of a job in the ...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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...
2 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

Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
9 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Submitted

zIIP usage of CICS transactions should be in the CICS component of TDS

For accounting reasons we need to know, how much time was used on a CP and on a special processor (zIIP) per CICS transaction. Cics Performance monitor shows this numbers by using the SMF 110 records USRCPUT and CPUTONCP respectively OFFLCPUT. TDS...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Wrapper of RSEAPI REST API

Hi, A wrapper of RSEAPI REST API could be useful for the future of RSEAPI Java SDK, a behaviour similar to Zowe and rse-api-for-zowe-cli. We have the following scenario in our development : We need to upload several files of a folder using RSEPI J...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Future consideration