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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...
about 1 month 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 ...
about 2 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...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

Ability to unlink the outline view with the JCL editor

In IDz v17, the outline view can be unlinked with the COBOL or PLI editors. The outline view doesn't move anymore when moving in the editor. The same feature is required with the JCL editor. Currently when editing a large JCL, the outline view wil...
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

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 ...
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

JCL parser doesn't recognize all valid JCL code. Add to these to parser, or allow custom exemptions

Various valid JCL keywords like; JOBGROUP GJOB SCHEDULE EXPORT SYMBOLS aren't properly recognized by the JCL parser. So, any jobs that make use of JOBGROUPs (and any of its dependencies/clauses) or SYMLISTs appear to have errors, despite being pro...
6 months ago in z/OS Explorer 3 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...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to switch users from within a Remote Systems Explorer session

We currently have 2 levels of authorization for several of our software products...one for use on a day to day basis by users and another that is used for more critical/protected functionality like deployments and system configurations. To accompl...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Make Temp datasets configurable

Hi, We found that while copying load modules from one PDS to another, IBM uses a standard temporary dataset format which is against our shop SMS rules. We found that there isn't a way to override the second and third nodes to confirm with inhouse ...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add API REST upload-dir-to-pds to RSE API

Hi, It would be useful to have an API REST in RSE API which allows us to upload a directory to a PDS. This functionality has been implemented for rse-api-for-zowe-cli but it does not exist in the Java SDK. For now, we have to launch several comman...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 5 Not under consideration

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