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Update the IBM Explorer for z/OS document for secure communication

I'd like to suggest adding the scenario or be more explicit when talking about the cert usage. The manual explains about the use of self-signed and a signed cert of each user's certificate authority choice but I didn't find how to setup a scenario...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Filter on a GDG entry gives "Empty list"

Filter on a GDG entry gives in IDz the answer "Empty list", even though the GDG have children.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 9 Not under consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 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...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Copy a binary file between different remote systems or local and remote system

The idea is to allow copying sequencial PDS's or PDS's members with binary data from one remote system to a different remote system and between the local and remote system in the IDz IDE
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 3 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...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Future consideration

IDz: Copy/Paste only works in one direction

e want to use copy and paste while working with the project view and the remote system explorer. We tried it in both directions but only the way from the project explorer to the host worked. There is a workaround with drag and drop but I wonder wh...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Not under consideration

IDZ V14.2.0 Browsing a remote sequential file not possible unlike TSO

In Remote Systems view (z/OS Projects perspective), if I open a remote file to edit it, my colleagues can neither browse nor view this file whereas if they work directly with TSO they can read the file in browse or view mode. IDZ displays a pop-up...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer MFA Support for zOS Connections outside RSE

Currently only zOS RSE connections include MFA support. We currently use zOS FTP, zOS Connect, etc. Connections.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration