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Optional default NEWGEN or NOGEN for edit command SAVE

This applies to PDSE libraries with version 2 and number of generations bigger than 0.AS-IS :You create a new generation of a member every time you change and save it since SAVE NEWGEN is the default for current generation of the member.So if you ...
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

Add GDG Extended Support to ISPF 3.2

Add the ability to specify GDG Extended keyword and define more than 255 GDG LIMIT when using ISPF 3.2 - Option V for Data Type Generation Data Group
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Delivered

ISPF: Return ZLPDSUDA on LMMFIND

This is a straight-up Request for Enhancement Headline: Set ZLPDSUDA in ISPF LMMFIND & LMMLIST services Description: The ISPF LMMDISP, LMMFIND, and LMMLIST services each optionally return a member statistics, setting around 28 different dialog...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

Externalize HILITE values to ISPF Z variables

Externalize the HILITE values to ISPF Z variables (e.g. ZHILANG, ZHICOLOR, ZHIPAREN, ZHIFIND, ZHICURSR)
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Delivered

Retrieve encryption status in ISPF at cluster level

While ISPF retrieves the information needed to display the encryption status for the DATA and INDEX, ISPF does not retrieve the information needed for the CLUSTER. Encryption status should be made available in ISPF for DATA, INDEX and CLUSTER.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

ISPF 3.2 support for DSKEYLBL

ISPF 3.2 support for the DSKEYLBL keyword; which is used for pervasive dataset encryption. The current ISPF 3.2 panel does not support it, so the end user needs to code JCL to allocate a dataset for pervasive encryption; which slows down implement...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

UNIX file listings require extra work when viewing the list because of case sensitivity

In TSO, the ISHELL utility displays the list of files / sub-directories in aAbBcCdD... order. It makes it real easy to see if a name exists regardless of it being upper/lower case. The ISPF panels do not do that by default and I can find no way to...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Delivered