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Remote System Explorer

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Faster navigate to main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES)

The tree in the remote systems view can get very big very fast if I have many entries in the main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES ...). This means I may have to scroll a long time to get to a main node. I can use some key combinations like c...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add shortcut keys to Open, browse, view

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. On ISPF days it was always the same effort to open a dataset in browse, view or edit. In Remote Systems view, double click opens in edit, but to open in browse or view it needs rig...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Support for exporting Eclipse network proxy/timeout settings through Push-To-Client

I am opening this enhancement request on behalf of the customer who is requesting "Support for exporting Eclipse network proxy/timeout settings through Push-To-Client". For the network connection settings, the preferences can be found under: Gener...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

allowing sorting of members in MVS DataSets

Sorting members in DataSets is very useful - for example sorting by change date to see recently changed members. The current state makes navigation a lot more difficult.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Provide 'Open with...' functionality for spool files

Output files of jobs in JES should also provide an 'Open with...' function for selection other editors than default.This issue results out of PMR TS002915303 (see entry 3 Nov 2020 10:49 PM).
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Expand Dataset Filtering to include VOLSER Values

In a SYSPLEX environment, it is likely that there are datasets cataloged on different catalogs that are LPAR specific. In order for us to begin using z/OS Explorer as a viable replacement to 3270 emulation, we need the ability to create dataset fi...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

JSON editor would be good.

The latest z/OS Explorer has a nice editor for WSDL files in the Unix File System, where the DESIGN tab shows a graphical view of the WSDL schema.As we are now preparing to implement JSON, I would like to have a similar editor for JSON schema.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Single-Sign-On in RSE

Instead of presenting the standard dialog with user/password when connecting to a remote system, a custom Java class should be called which does a call to a custom Kerberos pass ticket system. After getting a valid information back, the connect sh...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

In export IMS Resources to z/OS, unable to refresh dataset name.

In export IMS Resources to z/OS, unable to refresh dataset name. There is no option next to the entry window to refresh. We did find out later that you can hit enter and it will refresh but that is not intuitive. Something needs to be added to thi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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