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ISPF

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ISR@PRIM - Session - Add OS Level

Add 'OS Level' when a user displays 'Session' information from the ISPF Menu (ISR@PRIM). With z/OS 2.1 and above, IBM has introduced/defined a new system symbolic to display the Operating System Level (&OSLEVEL) For example: Menu Utilities Com...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Allow rexx program to insert file tailoring output lines

File tailoring skeletons allow imbedded rexx programs through the use of )REXX and )ENDREXX tags. I would like for those rexx programs to be able to insert new lines of output to the ISPFILE output, without leaving the rexx program. The rexx progr...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

retrieve last line command from ISPF DSLIST

Sometimes I issue a long TSO command as a line command on ISPF DSLIST. And then I would like to issue a variation of the command. I would like to issue a line command to retrieve, but not execute the previous line command. As a retrieve line comma...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Add module load point information to ISRDDN

When using the ISRDDN function to evaluate load module information, it is only the Entry Point Address (EPA) that is referenced... the Load Point is never really addressed. For example, when issuing the LOAD command, the "CSVQUERY results" pop-up ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under 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...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

3.4 allow use of individual qualifiers

The data set list in ISPF 3.4 allows the use of a slash character to represent the entire data set name. Likewise, there are times when I would like to refer to only one of the qualifiers in the data set name. For example, if the data set name is:...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under 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?
almost 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...
over 6 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.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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