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z/OS Explorer

    IBM z/OS Explorer RSEAPI fails to redirect to Overflow Servers with some Zowe Explorer and SWAGGER requests

    RSEAPI 1.1.7 to RSEAPI 1.2.5 with z/OS Expl 3.3.5 and IDz 16.0.x to current 3.4 and 17.0 levels. Most users are using VS Code/zOpenEditor. The Overflow mechanism in RSEAPI fails to redirect to a new server when set up in rseapi.env and accessed wi...
    14 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 0 Planned for future release

    Provide Swagger for RSEAPI license registration endpoint

    Please provide a Swagger definition for rseapi/api/v1/licenses/registerProduct to enable easier testing and validation of license registration requests and responses.
    about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    New Job-Filter CC (Completion Code/Return Code)

    In the Remote Systems View, I can create job filters under the JES node.The filter strings should be expanded to allow filtering by CC (Completion Code/Return Code).Example: Filter for all jobs with CC = 0 or all jobs with CC > 4 This is very u...
    22 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 0 Submitted

    Provisioning a preconfigured z/OS RSE connection with client certificate authentication during the z/OS Explorer P2 installation.

    Deployment of an unattended P2 installation of z/OS Explorer client (Windows). Easy installation and use of z/OS Explorer, without requiring user knowledge of the target systems
    3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

    Enable the RSE API to support exact (non‑wildcard) PDS member queries without requiring pagination headers.

    Customers frequently need to filter or retrieve a single, exact PDS member, but the current RSE API rejects non‑wildcard member queries whenever any pagination headers are included, which prevents IBM Z Open Editor and Zowe Explorer from supportin...
    5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

    Remote system: Send the password in the configured code page

    We have users who include the characters ! or | in their passwords. We are using the IBM1147 code page (France with Euro) for the 3270 emulator and the Remote System view. The problem is that if you type ! for the password in the 3270 emulator, yo...
    3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

    Implement support in RSE API to allow GDG generations to be referenced by relative index number.

    As of RSE API 1.2.3 we have support for Generation Data Sets (GDS) in data set queries. A new GET command (datasets/{gdgName}/GDSList) has been added to retrieve the list of GDS names for a specific Generation Data Group (GDG). It would be useful ...
    6 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 5 Future consideration

    Automatically escape & character in TSO commands when using the ISPF Interactive gateway

    In IDz v17, executing a TSO command like TSO EXEC 'MY.SRC.REXX(HELLO)' '>&<' results in the REXX getting the arguments as ;;; For example with a REXX script like: /* REXX */ Arg arg1 say arg1 It works when the & is escape...
    8 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Not under consideration

    Add support for all components to use certificate/smartcard as login method

    As an extension to IDZ-I-2324 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for all components from IDz client same way as RSE does. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use existing smartcard infras...
    9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Future consideration

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