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    RSEAPI Add Support to Append Data to Files and Datasets

    Currently there is no API to append to existing files/datasets. PUT /content and/rawContent for MVS and UNIX only replaces the contents. This idea would be to add an optional request header that lets you choose between "replace" and "append" for t...
    1 day ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Submitted

    New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

    As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
    5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Planned for future release
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    Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

    It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 13 Under review

    Member Versions should not get Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz

    Case updated by IBM - TS020854199 26 November 2025, 09:12 AM CST - Severity 3 Case Title Member Versions Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz IBM Support Commented Hello Naren Thanks for opening this case. I have checked ...
    9 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

    We require the ability for IDz to support OAuth 2 authorisation code grants in order to access zOS Connect server instances.

    All use of basic auth to zOS Connect servers is forbidden due to security vulnerabilities in using basic auth over http. This means that developers are unable to connect from within IDz to any zOS Connect servers to query deployed services, deploy...
    15 days ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Submitted

    RSEAPI/RSE should not alter the 'referenced date' of datasets when they are listed via z/OS Explorer (Eclipse/VS Code).

    When users list Datasets through Eclipse/VSCode, the "referenced date" for all listed datasets are inadvertently updated to the current date. This happens even though no dataset was browsed, viewed or edited. This behavior has a significant impact...
    4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

    Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

    If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

    New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

    With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted. In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for t...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Future consideration

    Possibility to define a property group by default

    Hi, It would be useful to have the option to define a property group by default for all imported z/OS projects. Today our developers must select each project and associate it with the property group that we want. An action that can be easily autom...
    9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

    Enable key mapping in RCE to switch from editor/view/perspective

    By default, key mapping CTRL+F6 can be used to switch from one editor tab to another but when RCE is opened and has the focus then CTRL+F6 doesn't work anymore. A user cannot use key mapping to switch between the RCE and Editor tabs. In v15, it wa...
    7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

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