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z/OS Explorer

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RDZ JES job filtering

extend the capabilities in RDz to provide a JES filter that supports the functionality currently found in SDSF. DA OJOB is not supported and is often used to provide a current list of active jobs
over 11 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Under review

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'...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Under review

Remote Edit History View does not support Browse

The Remote Edit History View has an "Open" command in the context menu. This means that the selected file is always locked. It would make sense to add a "Browse" to the context menu in the same way as the Remote Systems View, so that the file to b...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Under review

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

Job Confirmation Locate Job, Notify - Store in settings

Hi, Whenever I start a job via "submit to ...", a dialog appears where I can select "Locate Job", "Notify" or "OK". Most developers usually have a preference for one of these variants. But you always have to select one of them at job start. If you...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Planned for future release

IDz tool. Enterprise Service Tools.New Web Services for CICS Project wizard. Import Source Files. Remote... Browse For File in MVS Files.. Select a File window.

Currently when using this wizard and on this window ALL copybooks with a copybook library are displayed for selection. Please change the Browse For File window to use the same "Short List of elements" functionality like in the regular Remote Syste...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

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...
10 months 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...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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