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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...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

Please Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support to z/OSMF Connection(s) in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3

After migrating to MFA at our organization, our z/OSMF connections in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3 became obsolete due to lack of support for MFA. In the interest of security and standardization, please consider adding MFA support to z/OSMF. Tha...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 1 Not under consideration

IDz version in the application logs

We need to know which version of the IBM Developer for ZOS is using each developer of our organization. Our question is if any of the application logs are writing this information. We are using this Audit Data:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Future consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

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

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

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration