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Remote System Explorer

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

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

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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer Future 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...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer Future consideration

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

Allow job Group handling in IDz (not only single jobs but groups of jobs)

Job Handlind in JES currently allows single job handling only, no job groups.Would be helpful to also use job groups like in TSO/ispf. Current situation: In IDz "Remote Systems -> JES" cancelling a job group fails. Doing the same in TSO/ispf it...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer Future consideration