Shortcut for filter pds members

[Your-Pal-Al]

It would be nice if there were a keyboard shortcut to quickly filter pds members to get to one you want. For example, entering CTRL +'L' would open a dialog where you can enter a new member name filter

I've tried adding a keyboard shortcut within VS Code to execute "Zowe Explorer: Filter PDS Members", but when I use this shortcut I get the following error;

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'contextValue')

I'm assuming this is because the context of what data set you're looking at isn't stored. Perhaps it could default to the last PDS that was used?

[JWaters02]

In case you aren't aware - when you set a data set filter, you can filter by name immediately, rather than having to always use the filter data set button. E.g.

• YOUR.PDS.NAME(MEMBER1)
• YOUR.PDS.NAME(MEM*)
• YOUR.PDS.NAME(MEM*,PROG*,FILE1)
• YOUR.FIRST.PDS(MEMFILTR), YOUR.SECOND.PDS(MORE*).

This should speed up your workflow a bit as it avoids needing to use the filter by name as much as you may currently being using it for.

I'm assuming this is because the context of what data set you're looking at isn't stored.

You are right that this is likely the reason, as the filter takes in the tree node you right click on as input, so if you try to execute the command without a node input it will throw that error. But it does raise a valid point that most of our commands are constructed this way and so most actually do not support keybinds being assigned at all. So we should probably look into that as a tech debt thing.

Perhaps it could default to the last PDS that was used?

That's a good idea, do you mean the last PDS that was filtered on?

[Your-Pal-Al]

you can filter by name immediately, rather than having to always use the filter data set button. E.g.

Thanks! I've known about this, but I don't always know exactly which members I plan on working with

That's a good idea, do you mean the last PDS that was filtered on?

Yeah, that would be really convenient. I think a decent something like the current "Zowe Explorer: Filter Data set by pattern" command could work, if it defaulted to the previously used profile and auto-populate the data set pattern to the one used last