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z/OS Explorer

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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...
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Option "Source -> Validate JCL" within IDz JCL editor does not work with tape datasets

Currently if there is a tape dataset used in the JCL job, this JCL editor feature "Source -> Validate JCL" does not support that. When using this option tape dataset is reported as "dataset not exist", but it clearly does, as it is tape and it ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Data Set View - Open Member, recognize correct editor

I am not sure if I got the right workspace. We use Wazi Developer for Eclipse version 1.4 When opening a member from the "Data Sets" view, the generic text editor is always used. This means that I cannot use the features of the language specific e...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Extend JES filters configuaration for performance configuration

Depending on how a user set up his JES filter there could be a huge cpu usage seen for JMON started task. Think of a JES filter all values set to '*' and / or a regular refresh every 5 seconds.There should be configuration options to reduce perfor...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

Extend JMON for performance configuration

Depending on how a user set up his JES filter there could be a huge cpu usage seen for JMON started task. Think of a JES filter all values set to '*' and / or a regular refresh every 5 seconds.There should be configuration options to reduce perfor...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

installation of product and feature and update

product installation and updates are always problematic
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

data set concatenation on remote z/os file search

The Remote z/OS File search should act similar as ISRSUPC in ISPF/SCLM and get an option to search concatenated (like in SCLM). When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialog, please add an option (checkbox) to re...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 1 Not under consideration

API for IDz compare functionality (and a save dialog when using the SWAP button in case of sources are in dirty state)

It would be useful to have an API for the IDz compare including the possibility to edit one or both of the two compared sources (similar to the EditorOpener.getInstance().browse/.open).Additionally there is a problem using the SWAP button. When yo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Sort Tabs in Remote Shell View

When we have several tabs open in the the Remote Shell view, it would be very helpful if we could sort them in the same way as we can sort the tabs in the editor.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration