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z/OS Explorer

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Ability to configure number of lines within a JCL being submitted through zOS Explorer

A very large JCL being submitted through zOS Explorers JMON interface, are using a large part of the ECSA for inter task communication between the RSED and JMON tasks.Ultimately leaving limited ECSA available for other system communications.It sho...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

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'...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Under review

Remote Edit History View does not support Browse

The Remote Edit History View has an "Open" command in the context menu. This means that the selected file is always locked. It would make sense to add a "Browse" to the context menu in the same way as the Remote Systems View, so that the file to b...
about 2 months ago in z/OS 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
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

Update the IBM Explorer for z/OS document for secure communication

I'd like to suggest adding the scenario or be more explicit when talking about the cert usage. The manual explains about the use of self-signed and a signed cert of each user's certificate authority choice but I didn't find how to setup a scenario...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Filter on a GDG entry gives "Empty list"

Filter on a GDG entry gives in IDz the answer "Empty list", even though the GDG have children.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 9 Not under consideration

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