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Using Secured Connections with ICSF-based Certificate Keys

Establishing secured connections for IDz requires a security certificate. When this certificate is installed in RACF, there are two options for the private key; maintain within RACF or maintain with ICSF. This request is to have the ICSF-based key...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Limit the size of drag and drop file in RDz

Need a way to control the file size for the "drag and drop" action from host to local. If the file size exceed a predefined value, the action should fail.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

Problem with z/OS remote search on aliased datasets

When trying to perform a remote z/OS search on an aliased datasets the search results, showed in the "z/OS remote search view", refers to the related dataset and not the alias.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Context menu in IDz z/OS Project Explorer does not provide sufficient new artifact options

With IDz/RTC integration, if one wants to create a new zFolder or zFile in a zComponent project, there is not a menu option in the context menu for creating a new zFile or zFolder in the z/OS project explorer view (the typical view for editing cod...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 5 Future consideration