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ISPF gives error ISP190A whenever a VER NONBLANK test is used on a non-panel field

The ISPF panel verify statement (VER) displays a message when a variable doesn't meet the verification criteria. It also automatically places the cursor to the last panel field referred to in any panel statement. This is likely the same field as t...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF LMMLIST to support PDSE Member Generations

When listing a PDSE with member generations include the base member *and* all generations, both the abolute and relative generations. Will need to include when the base member has been deleted by TSO DELETE leaving the newest generation as an orph...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF LMMDEL to support PDSE Member Generations

If use on a member generations then just delete that generation. If use on generation 0 (base member) then delete the base member and *all* generations.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future 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 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

The 'S', 'F' and 'L' line commands are used to reshow hidden lines, and can only be entered on lines that are not displayed ***and*** not hidden. It would be very useful if "doubled" ("SS", "FF" and "LL") versions could be used on the lines immedi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF Extended Stats when Member Record Count > 64K

With the ability to have PDSE members with more than 64K records the basic ISPF statistics fails. Extended ISPF Stats is an option that must be set site wide or by the individual user/member. Requesting that when a member is saved with more than 6...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

Allow concatenated commands in ISPF ZEXPAND

Allow the use of concatenated commands in ZEXPAND in ISPF.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future 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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance COPY command from TSO/ISPF command line

In the current scenario, when editing a PDS member, a COPY <member_name> can be issued in the command line to copy contents from another member inside the same PDS.The idea is to enhance COPY command in 2 ways:1. When editing member MEMBER1 ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

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