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Remote System Explorer

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Ability to configure number of lines within a JCL being submitted through zOS Explorer

A very large JCL being submitted through zOS Explorers JMON interface, are using a large part of the ECSA for inter task communication between the RSED and JMON tasks.Ultimately leaving limited ECSA available for other system communications.It sho...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

Remove ACTIVE JOBS filter under JES

Due to active jobs filter as it is driving extremely high CPU on the Host system and slowing down the Development environment for everyone. We want to remove that option while packaging the IDZ.
12 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Add the ability to specify an FTP options for CICS explorer

When they use HFS file from CICS explorer and the outout of HFS file list ( ls -al output ) contains lower case charactors, it got gabage as KATAKANA charactors. Thisi cuase CICS explorere does not shows HFS file output. If customer use "KATAKANA"...
about 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

IBM Explorer/RSE Support for Extended GDG (GDGE)

Requesting new feature to allow IBM Explorer for z/OS and RSE for z/OS to support Extended Generation Data Groups (GDGE). IBM Explorer for z/OS can be used to define host file GDGs and the current documented limit is 255. Extended GDGs now support...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Provide an option in IDz to reveal the password as it is being typed into the password field

RACF passphrases can now be longer than 8 characters - it is possible to define passwords with 100 characters. Those passwords are difficult to remember and it would be nice to have a feature to make the password visible when it is inserted in the...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Set open mode by filter configuration

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. Preferences allow to change the default open mode to browse or view, which often is unhandy in some situations. The same option on a per filter basis would be much more comfortable...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

Job Confirmation Locate Job, Notify - Store in settings

Hi, Whenever I start a job via "submit to ...", a dialog appears where I can select "Locate Job", "Notify" or "OK". Most developers usually have a preference for one of these variants. But you always have to select one of them at job start. If you...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Delivered

JES Filter Strings - combine variable &USERID with a constant

The filter string for JES is already support the variable &USERID . Unfortunately I can not combine this variable with a constant. Example: my user id is FRED. If I now want to filter all jobs with the job name FREDX this does not work. &am...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Receive an error message when trying to open a file in a manner that isn't allowed based on the file type.

Currently if I try to double click on a vsam file in remote systems explorer, nothing happens. If a developer is unfamiliar with the fact that you cannot open a vsam in this manner in idz, they might be confused and continue to double click not kn...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

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