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z/OS Explorer

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A right-click on a z/OS Project triggers duplicated calls to the host which slows down the display of the context menu

For example if a z/OS project contains 3 datasets like BUILDER.TEST.LISTING BUILDER.TEST.SRC.COBOL BUILDER.TEST.GENRTED.JCL debug level 2 is enabled on the server side. The user logs in and right-click on the z/OS Project. His rsecomm log shows 2 ...
1 day ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Submitted

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
8 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
15 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Bug using 'Search' within Remote Systems view

When performing a Remote z/OS Search, where the 'Regular expression' check-box option is selected for the 'With name:' text field, subsequent searches use the initial 'With name:' value regardless of if it gets changed or not
19 days ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Submitted

IDz v16.03 make the "Launch Shell" context menu available for Filters in Remote Systems View and on remote directories in the z/OS Projects view

1) Currently in the Remote Systems view the "Launch Shell" context menu only appears on directories listed under a defined filter. Please make the "Launch Shell" context available on the Filter as well. 2) Currently in the z/OS Project View the "L...
4 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local

TS015047272: IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local. File contains non-roundtrippable characters tried to transfer from remote system to local should transfer those char as well ex CR fL...
4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Copy a binary file between different remote systems or local and remote system

The idea is to allow copying sequencial PDS's or PDS's members with binary data from one remote system to a different remote system and between the local and remote system in the IDz IDE
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Not under consideration

PDS member last modified date should in Show in table view

TS014586742 PDS member : last modified date should in Show in table view . once stats updated at ISPF side same is visible at IDZ side. However, if element do not have ant timestamp which mean empty if directly updated at IDZ side then timestamp i...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 1 Future 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...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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