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z/OS Explorer

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Provide the ability to switch users from within a Remote Systems Explorer session

We currently have 2 levels of authorization for several of our software products...one for use on a day to day basis by users and another that is used for more critical/protected functionality like deployments and system configurations. To accompl...
14 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

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 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Submitted

Allow Default 'My Datasets' filter to be customised

In remote systems explorer there is a default MVS Files filter - 'My Data Sets' - that is hardcoded as '<User ID>.*', and this cannot be changed. In our organisation that the standard HLQ for user datasets and so we need the ability to custo...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Submitted

IDz version in the application logs

We need to know which version of the IBM Developer for ZOS is using each developer of our organization. Our question is if any of the application logs are writing this information. We are using this Audit Data:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 1 Not under consideration

Make Temp datasets configurable

Hi, We found that while copying load modules from one PDS to another, IBM uses a standard temporary dataset format which is against our shop SMS rules. We found that there isn't a way to override the second and third nodes to confirm with inhouse ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Submitted

Add API REST upload-dir-to-pds to RSE API

Hi, It would be useful to have an API REST in RSE API which allows us to upload a directory to a PDS. This functionality has been implemented for rse-api-for-zowe-cli but it does not exist in the Java SDK. For now, we have to launch several comman...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

JES output - download to PC all at once (TS017049927)

Please see ticket TS017049927. Ticket question: I am trying to download a list of JES OUTPUTS to my PC. I see you can export individual ones easily but dont want to do this for each one. I tried highlighting all the output, clicking FILE>EXPORT...
4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 1 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
over 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

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