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z/OS Explorer

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Please Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support to z/OSMF Connection(s) in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3

After migrating to MFA at our organization, our z/OSMF connections in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3 became obsolete due to lack of support for MFA. In the interest of security and standardization, please consider adding MFA support to z/OSMF. Tha...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 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
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Documentation 1 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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 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.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 9 Not under 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...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

A right-click on a z/OS Project triggers duplicate calls to the host which slow 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 ...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Is a defect

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...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Future consideration

IDz: Copy/Paste only works in one direction

e want to use copy and paste while working with the project view and the remote system explorer. We tried it in both directions but only the way from the project explorer to the host worked. There is a workaround with drag and drop but I wonder wh...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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