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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.
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Provide direct dialog manager support for creating new logical screens.

It would make it easier to create customized environments.
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Under review

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...
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Edit line command to insert blank lines

Faster and fewer key strokes
6 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...
6 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 ...
11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Provide an ISPF PANEL VER type of PATH

With the growth of files in USS and ISPF dialogs that can work with them, there needs to be an ISPF Panel verification option to verify the PATH in the same way that DSNAME can be verified.
11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enable ISPF services to support PDSE Member Generations

LMMLIST and LMMCOPY along with LMMDISP should support PDSE Member Generations if they exist in the referenced PDSE.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

add su logging to TSO 3.4 and TSO 3.17

With z/os 2.5 and PTF for OA62850 applied. we have SYSLOGD configured with the auth.* setting. If I go into OMVS and issue su with a privileged id it gets logged to the SYSLOGD However, if you use TSO OPTION 3.17 or 3.4 and use su I am able to swi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future 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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Not under consideration

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