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z/OS Explorer

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Autoconnect preference by remote system

In Windows - Preferences - Remote Systems, the "Connect automatically on startup" property would be useful if we could choose which remote system we want to auto-connect, not all connections. It is useful to avoid logging into ALL connections in c...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

zExplorer to support edit of local files containing x'0D in COBOL PICTURE clause

The issue is when they copy from the host (IBM1047) to local (UTF-8) and the program contains the hex value '0D'. It is being translated to '3F'. IDz COBOL Editor can preserve x'0D in a value clause but only when editing remote datasets. It doesn'...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270?

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270? This would be useful to display say the first 10 entries. Mainframe 3270 screen allows wildcard for first level qualifier , why IDz it is no...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Add warning when exporting RSE filters leads to not export all filters

When you export filters for a z/OS connection in Remote Systems Explorer, there must be a warning, if this doesn't lead to export all filters.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

Show progress when copying multiple files in USS

The progress bar currently goes crazy when copying multiple big files from USS.It seems to handle progress well only when copying a single file.When copying multiple files, it seems to jump from one to the next very quickly, which makes it impossi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

option to switch to Superuser mode

Explorer for z/OS needs an option to switch to Superuser mode (SU).
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Single FTP session to allow MFA

In the FTP perspective, use only one FTP session. This will allow our multi factor authentication MFA. From the sniffer/Wireshark, we see the first session authenticate, but the second fails because the same token pin is presented a second time. T...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Allow job Group handling in IDz (not only single jobs but groups of jobs)

Job Handlind in JES currently allows single job handling only, no job groups.Would be helpful to also use job groups like in TSO/ispf. Current situation: In IDz "Remote Systems -> JES" cancelling a job group fails. Doing the same in TSO/ispf it...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enable 'Active job address space' view for all SYSPLEX address spaces

We have a SYSPLEX of three LPARs. In 'Remote Systems => JES => Active Jobs' I can see all active Jobs of those three systems. In 'Active job address space' view (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/explorer-for-zos/3.2?topic=subsystem-displayin...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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