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    Provide a negative exclude command for EDIT and VIEW

    Provide e an NEXCLUDE command similar to FIND and EXCLUDE that excludes all lines in the specified range that do not match the specified picture, regex or string in the specied columns.
    10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    ISPF editor: New move command to move a column in file/member.

    We want to move columns to another position. Example: Command ===> MVC 7 8 13 Move columns 7-8 to position 13 Example for input 11 12 13 1421 22 23 2431 32 33 2541 42 44 45 Output of MVC 7 8 13: 11 12 14 1321 22 24 2331 32 25 3341 42 45 44 Kind...
    11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Edit line command to insert blank lines

    Faster and fewer key strokes
    11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Make Point-and-shoot fields uneditable

    ISPF Point-and-shoot fields are of great help to ISPF users. They enable the user to conveniently "shoot" commands while being with the cursor in the context of the action. Point-and-shoot fields comes with another great User Setting: Tab to point...
    12 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance ISPF Services to Dynamically Support 8 Character Userids

    Today the user code is responsible to determine if the userid is 8 characters and thus require, in the case of LMMSTATS the use of USER8, instead of the USER keyword. The service should be able to determine this dynamically so the developer using ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Free screen size in ISPF

    As monitor size have increased and the format of monitor have change from 4:3 to 16:9 I see a lot of monitor setups with monitors in landscape and portrait mode. And with 27" and 32" monitors a lot more can be showed on screen. At the moment ISPF ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Not under consideration

    Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

    ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    in the panel editing: I would like the option of exporting the panel definitions into a text-source format with tools around it to be able to create pannels with ISPF statements. The definition should fit in a functional design, also context sensitive info for the end-user.

    shorten the distance between functional design and program
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    ISPF Edit custom hilities

    Allow ISPF EDIT users to create a customize scheme for highlighting lines and text within EDIT. This would include: - Comments (entire line or in-line) - Keywords (allow for up to 4 different colors) - Punctuations (comma, semi-colon, etc) - Block...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    CAPS for JCL only and lower case for other statements

    CAPS is on or off for a member. Since JCL statement is require to be in upper case only . The editor know about that. Change the CAPS function in EDIT so it keep JCL in upper case and other statement in lower case.
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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