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ISPF

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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...
5 months 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.
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Make the ISPF TSO Command Function Consistently Across All ISPF Panels

an IBM Case was recently created to describe a problem encountered by RACF administrator, who had recently converted the RACF password pattern to include lower case characters. The problem encountered they discovered was that the ISPF TSO Command ...
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
9 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ISPF Edit Panel REXX to See *ALL* of the Data

Enhance ISPF Panel REXX to allow access beyond the zscreeni (current screen) to see the entire edit/view data. This will allow changing hilighting when text spans screens, and will also allow other actions based on the entire edit data rather than...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Be able to configure SCRNAME for common panels instead of using internal names such as ISFPCU4

I can use SWAPBAR to display the sessions I have, but it displays names like ISFPCU4. I can set the screen name using SCRNAME eg SCRNAME SDSF, but I do not want to do this for every session I start. It would be good to be able to get the names se...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Add ALPHANUM Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

There are edit checks for ALPHA and NUM, but not ALPHANUM. We have the need to validate fields that should only contain A-Z,0-9. We have to do this programmatically now. A panel edit check is much easier and much less coding to do.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TBDISPL to enable Panel REXX Access to the Table

Enhance the TBDISPL service so that the table data on the ISPF Panel is accessible, and modifiable, using Panel REXX. This would eliminate the need for dynamic panels/table in over 50% (perhaps 90%+) of the use cases.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

TASID - Make Open Source

Suggest IBM make TASID 'Open Source' code and place it on the CBT tape. As noted in the below IBM website, "This tool is available on an 'AS IS' basis" and "In z/OS 2.2, some functions do NOT operate correctly. Selecting option 4, Initiator Status...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF STATS Stuck at 01.99

When a PDS/PDSE member VV.MM reaches 01.99, the stats stop incrementing and get stuck at 01.99. When 01.99 is reached can the VV be incremented to 02 and the MM be reset to 00 and continue updating up to the limit of VV.MM, then reset back to 01.0...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

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