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Enhance ISPF Edit Panel REXX to See *ALL* of the Data

Enhance ISPF Panel REXX to allow access beyond the zscreeni (current screen) to see the entire edit/view data. This will allow changing hilighting when text spans screens, and will also allow other actions based on the entire edit data rather than...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 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...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Add command to limit find/change/exclude commands to specific vertical range

It is possible to limit both the "width" and "depth" of the ISPF editor F(ind), C(jange) and (e)X(clude) commands, by specifying bounds and labels. Of these two, the bounds ("width") can be set using the "BOUNDS" primary and/or "BNDS" line command...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

VIEW should have the same support as BROWSE for working with OPEN data sets

We are using ISPF VIEW to filter events in an open LDAP LOG data set (in use by LDAP) for example.After a certain runtime from LDAP, and using ISPF VIEW to filter messages, VIEW terminates with I/O error during opening the LOG.ISPF BROWSE is getti...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under 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 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

add details in SWAP LIST panel

The SWAP LIST display shows information about the various ISPF screens that are open. However, the information is cryptic. The SWAP LIST panel should include a scrollable field that includes the title line of the panel (please remove extra blank c...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

ISPF ZSTART functionality expanded

As it is now, ZSTART only works with ISPSTART when having a PANEL() plus a OPT() operator, e g: ISPSTART PANEL(panname) OPT(varname) 1: ZSTART working also in a "SELECT PANEL()..." statement - and/or2: ZSTART with ISPSTART working also with a CMD(...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Be able to configure SCRNAME for common panels instead of using internal names such as ISFPCU4

I can use SWAPBAR to display the sessions I have, but it displays names like ISFPCU4. I can set the screen name using SCRNAME eg SCRNAME SDSF, but I do not want to do this for every session I start. It would be good to be able to get the names se...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration