The Remote Edit History view

The Remote Edit History view tracks the remote resources that you open for editing. It helps you remember the MVS data set members and sequential data sets that you edit, and those files you edit on z/OS UNIX and z/OS projects.

The Remote Edit History view shows up in the lower left pane of the Remote System Explorer (RSE) perspective by default. If you need to open this view, select Window > Show View > Other… > Remote Systems > Remote Edit History.

You can see a table of the resources that you recently opened in the view. Entries for resources on disconnected systems will show up in gray. To edit a resource, double-click the resource that you want to edit. Then, RSE is automatically connected and the resource is opened.

After RSE is connected, you can right-click the selected resource and select Show In to locate the underlying resource in a view, such as the Remote Systems view, or the Remote System Details view, or the Remote Monitor view.

Clearing history items

You can clear history items that you are not interested in from the Remote Edit History view. To clear the selected items, click the Remove the selected items from history button. To clear all items, click the Remove all items from the history button.

Setting the number of history entries

You can also set the number of history entries to keep by using the Edit History Limit view action. The default is 30.

Comparing history items with local history

To compare a history item with its local history, right-click the selected item and select Compare With > Local History.

Replacing history items with local history

To replace a history item with its local history, right-click the selected item and select Replace With > Local History.

Comparing MVS Files and UNIX Files

You can compare MVS files and UNIX files that were opened in the editor previously with these steps:
  1. Within the Remote Edit History view, select the recently opened resources that you want to compare.
  2. Right-click the view and choose either Compare With Each Other or Compare With Each Other (read-only) depending on requirements:
    • Compare With Each Other allows you to update and save changes to either file within the editor.
    • Compare With Each Other (read-only) allows you to view the comparison with the editor, but any changes will not be saved.
    Note: As the editor inherits the permissions from the files themselves, if either of the files is read-only, that file will not be edited no matter which option is chosen.
  3. A comparison of the selected resources is displayed in the editor view.