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ISPF

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Panel ISRUTBP2 should support Query and Stats commands.

Panel ISRUTBP2 displays a list of ISPF tables. Please add line commands to invoke TBQUERY and TBSTATS services and display the results in a new panel.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Add EMAIL Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

Please add the ability to validate email addresses via the ISPF panel VER statement.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Support for VIEW of the ISPF log

In dialog test, panel ISPYXD1 currently supports an option 5, "Browse ISPF log". But browse is not as versatile as View. When using the View service, the dialog developer can use exclude and find commands to filter which lines are displayed, makin...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Need for ISPF alternate translate table for Cyrillic terminal (3278CY now)

Current translate table for ISPF Terminal Type 3278CY defines as valid some symbols which are really invalid for PC3270 session with Host Code Page 1025 Russia, we found the following symbols:x'42', x'54', x'62', x'72', x'75'We need the alternate ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Using ZCMD variable and Control NONDISL commnad

The customer defined several Zstart commands for ISPF. One of the Zstart commands contain a Non-Display panel command such as; 'CONTROL NONDISPL ENTER'; 'DISPLAY PANEL(panelname)' The above command should cause a panel to be processed but not disp...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF pseudo temporary names should be true temporaries

ISPF pseudo data set names used by LMCOPY (and others) rely on the invoker to have a valid ALIAS defined since they default to the PREFIX of the submitter. In the case of a started task that doesn't have an ALIAS defined or update access to the ma...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Regular expression $ matching needs improvement

The string ISPF passes to the regular expression matcher appears to include trailing blanks, even when those trailing blanks are not logically there. ie. the blanks are there as an artifact of the editor (VB datasets) or would not generally be the...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Provide diagnostic aide in ISPF TEST to see VDEFINE definition used for a variable

During development and problem diagnosis, it is discovered that a variable has incorrect content (shorter than expected, typically). ISPF TEST option 3 is used to see the content during the diagnosis effort to isolate the problem. If I could see h...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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