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ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

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

ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Add GEN as an option to LMMDISP

Add the GEN option which EDIT service has, to LMMDISP service too.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of ISPF LMDLIST Service

We have multiple applications that make use of the ISPF LMDLIST service with STATS(YES) to obtain a list of datasets and their attributes. The dataset list can contain numerous entries that has been observed exceeding 32,000 at times. Current LMDL...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session: Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally. This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend an...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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