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use milli-second time stamps in ISPF Gateway

To understand where ISPF Gateway spends most of its time while processing a request, we need a higher time-stamp resolution (milli-seconds is preferred) in the messages issued by ISPF Gateway.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance AL with copy (ALC)

Attended your session at Austin Tech University. Found out about the AL (Allocate) command in 3.4. I like it! Thank you! I would like to suggest adding a copy to it (Allocate a new dataset with attributes like dataset in line, then copy source dat...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Row count not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL

Row count is not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL. This means that applications that dynamically issue TBSARG will have to loop through all rows, determine if the row is visible or not, counting the visible rows, and finally determine which row is curr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF EDIF EDIT Macro Support for DSNAME and MEMBER

We need the capablility to set MEMBER and DSNAME variables inside EDIF so that customer EDIT Macros that run and depend on those two variables can execute sucessfully. These EDIT macros are normally used just to display the information from these ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Support NRETRIEV in the ISPF workplace panel

ISPF option 11, the ISPF Workplace, should support the use of the NRETRIEV command so that previously used names can be easily retrieved. Why make me type the name again?
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Need ISPF sample exit cleanup

Hello, In SC19-3619-01 p.234 there is a pointer to a sample panel exit named ISPPXMNX in ISP.SISPSAMP. This sample exit appears to be assembler generated from a PL/X exit and is essentially unreadable. It seems to us that as an example, this is un...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

determine file size when viewing workstation file

ISPF and its workstation agent should be changed so that they can determine the size of the workstation file being viewed and allocate a sufficiently large z/OS work data set to avoid the out-of-space condition.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Externalize the two TLD fields related to ZSCREENI dump size

The image dump depth and width are stored in the TLD, but not exposed in Z* variables. In order to find the beginning of the line associated within ZSCREENI pointed to by ZSCREENC one needs to know the dump width, which on larger than 24x80 termin...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Provide ISPF table IMPORT/EXPORT as ISPF services

Our applications use ISPF table for storing data, manipulating and accessing table entries from high level language programs using ISPF services. User also have a need to process the data statistically and graph the data. Currently, user has to ma...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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