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Remote System Explorer

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IDZ V14.2.0 Browsing a remote sequential file not possible unlike TSO

In Remote Systems view (z/OS Projects perspective), if I open a remote file to edit it, my colleagues can neither browse nor view this file whereas if they work directly with TSO they can read the file in browse or view mode. IDZ displays a pop-up...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under 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...
8 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

zExplorer to support edit of local files containing x'0D in COBOL PICTURE clause

The issue is when they copy from the host (IBM1047) to local (UTF-8) and the program contains the hex value '0D'. It is being translated to '3F'. IDz COBOL Editor can preserve x'0D in a value clause but only when editing remote datasets. It doesn'...
8 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270?

IDz MVS filter should allow to create filter having first qualifier as * in dataset names similar to 3270? This would be useful to display say the first 10 entries. Mainframe 3270 screen allows wildcard for first level qualifier , why IDz it is no...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Show progress when copying multiple files in USS

The progress bar currently goes crazy when copying multiple big files from USS.It seems to handle progress well only when copying a single file.When copying multiple files, it seems to jump from one to the next very quickly, which makes it impossi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Enable 'Active job address space' view for all SYSPLEX address spaces

We have a SYSPLEX of three LPARs. In 'Remote Systems => JES => Active Jobs' I can see all active Jobs of those three systems. In 'Active job address space' view (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adfz/explorer-for-zos/3.2?topic=subsystem-displayin...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Faster navigate to main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES)

The tree in the remote systems view can get very big very fast if I have many entries in the main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES ...). This means I may have to scroll a long time to get to a main node. I can use some key combinations like c...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add shortcut keys to Open, browse, view

We ask our users to not open a dataset in edit mode if not needed. On ISPF days it was always the same effort to open a dataset in browse, view or edit. In Remote Systems view, double click opens in edit, but to open in browse or view it needs rig...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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