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z/OS Explorer

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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.
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Open a new zOS Unix shell on double-click action.

The z/OS UNIX Shell in the Remote Systems View can only be launched by selecting the submenu item "Launch Shell". For better use it would be adventagious if this could be accomplished with a simple double click.
about 1 year ago in z/OS 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...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Update the IBM Explorer for z/OS document

During the installation of IBM Explorer for z/OS, while I was setting up encrypted communication, the manual asks to create a separated configuration for testing. One of the steps is to customize a second instance of RSE daemon, then add a job car...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 Delivered

Ignore case remain inactive with 'Compare with' for programs that have different sequence number AND case on the same line

When we compare programs, the button 'Ignore Case' in the toolbar has no effect in Compare editor if there are both different sequence number AND different case existing in a same line.In this case, the line displays a difference that should be el...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Delivered

Automatically Determine Host User ID When Connecting to a Remote System via Certificate Authentication

In z/OS Explorer, all Remote System connection types (FTP, SSH, z/OS, etc.) are by default set to the user ID of the workstation that the client is installed on. To change the Default ID for various connections a user can navigate to Windows/Prefe...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Delivered

Visibility to current CPU use by user in RSED address space

From PMR TS003198624 (the new format is not allowed in the PMR field.) With TSO, CICS, and Batch, I have visibility to see detail about TSO logons, CICS transactions, and batch jobs with our ASG-TMON monitors or other monitoring solution. Every no...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 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"...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Delivered

Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

ATTLS for IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition

ATTLS is preferred mechanism for securing connections. IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Editionshould implement ATTLS support.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

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