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Capability for customizing the ISPVCALL output dataset location.

Customer want to customize the output volume (UNIT) for the ISPF trace ISPVCALL. The output dataset is 'userid.ISPVCALL.TRACE'. <present behavior>module ISPVCALL tries to allocate trace dataset with hardcoded unitnames SYSALLDA and then SYSD...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Workplace - to Include Additional Qualifiers

Workplace. Define a new DSLIST or add to existing list the choice "Include Additional Qualifiers" which is connected to this list!
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Problem using ISPF edit REPLACE command

When trying to copy a block of data marked with a pair of "CC" using the REPLACE command and specifying a data set name on panel "Edit/View Replace" (ISRERPL1), this may lead to the following problem. If the data set you specified is a PDS(E) you ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Edit recovery doesn't recognize dataset/member being recovered has changed

Edit recovery is unable to tell that the underlying dataset/member has been changed since the recovery dataset was written. Since the entire dataset/member already appears to be being written to the recovery dataset, it should be possible to save ...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF 3.17 Unix Directory List - cannot move the MESSAGE column

Customer is trying to customize his ISPF Unix directory list to display: File name (35 chars) TYPE SIZE CHANGED_date and TIME The issue is that the MESSAGE column is part of the STATIC section of each line built by ISRUUDLD. The customer would lik...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

SUPERC and SRCHFOR should honor the configuration table values for temporary data sets.

The configuration table has the following: USE_PDFCUNIT_FOR_TEMP_ISPF_DATA_SETS PDF_DEFAULT_UNIT implying that if you set the first one to Yes, that any temporary data set will use the value from the second one. However, in SUPERC, OLDDD and NEWDD...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Symbols replacement and syntax highlight

1. During using ISPF to edit system profile or configuration, there are some symbols need to be researched, it's diffcult for reading.Solution: Input "HI SYMBOLS" in command line that replace all symbols with their real value, that the profile or ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Make ISRKEYS table member in Japanese.

Our customer want to display KEYLIST in Japanese.So they installed ISPF japanese feature and set ISP.SISPTJPN prior to ISP.SISPTENU in logon proc concatenation.But KEYLIST doesn't display in Japanese.It is because ISP.SISPTJPN(ISRKEYS) doesn't inc...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

SuperCE compare NON-PAIRED report should have indication whether the non-paired member is an alias.

Customer is trying to run SUPERCE against system proclibs and parmlibs to determine differences including differences in actual members present (new/old) and differences within paired members. When specifyng '*' in the 'PDS Member List' field, the...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

SuperC COMPARE SUMMARY AND STATISTICS report should support line counts over 999,999.

Current, SuperC Compare can compare datasets with more than 999,999 lines. However, the reports can only support line counts as high as 999,999.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

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