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ISPF Edit highlighting for R

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for the R language.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

ISPF Enhanced PANEL Edit highlighting

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support enhanced highlighting for the ISPF PANEL language. ISPF PANEL highlighting is very sparse, not highlighting over 170 keywords used by the PANEL language. PANEL developers on z/OS will experience signif...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

ISPF HILITE PLI - keywords missing

The IBM supplied ISP.SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) from z/OS 2.1 (RSU1504?) lacks four PL/I keywords
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 7 Planned for future release

Please Support SQL (Db2) highlighting in ISPF Editor

As a DBA i use a lot of SQL's and it would be very nice to have an SQL highlighting in ISPF Editor - this also helps to detect misspelling errors.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

Update ISPCMDS table entries for Minimum TRUNC values (e.g. UDLIST should be 3)

The default ISPCMDS table has many commands that have a truncation value of 0 when there is no reason to force the user to type in the entire command name. Reasonable truncation values should be considered and implemented. UDLIST is an example of ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

Prime ISRUMVC 'other dataset' field with current dataset for Copy/Move

When performing a copy or move operation from an extended member list ISRUDSM, panel ISRUMVC is displayed with an empty "other data set" field. The current data set name should be primed in this field. That will enable easy copies to same data set...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Planned for future release