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ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session: Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally. This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend an...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Modify ASCII BROWSE to honor Unix line break characters, like ASCII VIEW/EDIT already do

When using BROWSE in ASCII mode, CRLF characters in the Unix filesystem are not honored. The CRLF characters are honored in ASCII VIEW/EDIT. If the XML file size is smaller than 32761, the records are flowed onto one line of length 32760 (maximum ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF SELECT PGM should be enhanced to support calling a 64 bit program

ISPF currently has no code to support calling a program in 64 bit mode. When a SELECT PGM is done the program is invoked using the LINK macro and Reg 1 is set to the parm if any is specified. AMODE64 requires using LINKX and setting the AMODE64PK=...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF View/Edit entry panel is giving a ?Request failed? error when browsing a relative generation that does not exist.

When entering the name of a relative generation of a GDG that has no entries (e.g. SYS3.TEST.PDS(0)) on the View or Edit Entry panel, it will result in error message "Request Failed". If help is selected, it will display pop-up message "ISRD024 Al...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

ISPF gives error ISP190A whenever a VER NONBLANK test is used on a non-panel field

The ISPF panel verify statement (VER) displays a message when a variable doesn't meet the verification criteria. It also automatically places the cursor to the last panel field referred to in any panel statement. This is likely the same field as t...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

No warning on "conflicting" use of "SEQ" keyword in SuperC

When doing SuperC compares, the "SEQ" processing option is only valid for FB(80)/VB(255) datasets.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future 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

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