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z/OS Explorer

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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

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...
about 8 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...
about 8 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 ...
over 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...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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