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z/OS Explorer

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Improve startup time for IBM Explorer

When we start IBM Explorer, it will read and load more than 3,000 small files, mostly from the PLUGIN directory. These are small JAR files and parameter files. Reading all these small files from the network results in long startup times. Even if t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer - Operator commands

The z/OS operators are starting to show an interest in IBM Explorer. The main items they would like implemented are:1. Ability to issue operator commands from the RSE perspective.2. View the results of operator commands (active joblog)
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

IRemoteErrorFeedback.performErrorfeedback()

To fill the RemoteErrorList from a custom plugin you have to use the IRemoteErrorFeedback interface and the performErrorfeedback Method. Up to that point it is part of the RDz API. Unfortunately there is no implementation of the interface provided...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Not under consideration

Supporting JOBCORRELATOR in RDz JES Job Filter

In RDz your are only allowed to create filters using:owner, job name prefix, job status job class and job output class It would be really nice if the job correlation feature was also introduced in RDz.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

ISPF-like editor forz/OS Explorer

For old mainframe people, it would be very nice to have ISPF editor-like functions like:- Proper line numbers/command area to the left- Repeat- Copy with overlay- Move with overlay - Edit macros - Exclude lines combined with findetc.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 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.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for zos (Aqua) - Host Connection Emulator

We are rolling out Eclipse tooling for our developers. RDz with RTC are the tools for them. For sys progs and ops engineers we position IBM Explorer for z/OS (Aqua). Since we cannot offer all functionality in the tools, we do need to use 3270 scre...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 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 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Member Name Filter should use the same mechanism as Open Member or Remote z/OS File Search instead of Remote z/OS Search

In RDz 9.x, user can use a mask on member name in a large PDS file. e.g. SYS1.TESTJCL(T?01*) will return all members matching that patternThe open member option is fairly quick. There is an option to save the search as a filter, probably with the ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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