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ISPF

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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 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF: Provide a way to dynamically define a line command table

With the demise of LMAC due to lack of support there needs to be a way to dynamically define an ISPF Edit/View line command table for the life of the Edit/View session. This would over-ride the global_line_command_table from the ispf config. Alter...
3 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF EDIT NUM BLANKS mode

ISPF should support an EDIT NUM mode that behaves like numbers are on... except that it does nothing with the numbers "field" except set them to blanks. Suggestion is a NUM ON BLANKS command that would put the ISPF EDIT session into this mode. Alo...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Add ISPF Paste DIsplay to allow Selection

Enhance the ISPF Paste command to support a Display (or Select) option to display a list of all available clipboards to select from.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 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 9 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(...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

Enhance COPY command from TSO/ISPF command line

In the current scenario, when editing a PDS member, a COPY <member_name> can be issued in the command line to copy contents from another member inside the same PDS.The idea is to enhance COPY command in 2 ways:1. When editing member MEMBER1 ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

ISPF Edit Compare must support ascii files such as z/OSMF XML ones

ISPF Edit Compare does not work correctly with ascii files in a z/OS Unix file system, though it works correctly with EBCDIC files in a z/OS file system. Using ISPF Edit Compare in option 3.17 for z/OS Unix files on z/OS 2.2 at RSU1703, the COMP *...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration