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ISPF

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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?
over 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...
about 7 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.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Provide ISPF table IMPORT/EXPORT as ISPF services

Our applications use ISPF table for storing data, manipulating and accessing table entries from high level language programs using ISPF services. User also have a need to process the data statistically and graph the data. Currently, user has to ma...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF MEMLIST - Support DATASET option

The ISPF MEMLIST service is a easy way to invoke the enhanced member list. However it requires a LMMINIT before using. It would be easier to use if it also supported the DATASET parameter
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF Copy, Compare, Search do not support Unix files

ISPF was made Unix aware a few releases back, but functions like ISPF 3.3 copy, ISPF 3.12 and 3.13 SuperC, and 3.14 and 3.15 search were not made Unix aware. These functions should be modified to support Unix filenames.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Provide Creation Time in ISPF 3.2 for data sets created with EATTR=OPT

Hello, in support of the new Format 9 DSCBs created for data sets defined with EATTR=OPT (or VSAM) on an EAV, ISPF 3.2 displays the creating jobname and creating stepname for the requested data set. But, there's a third information contained in F9...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to end )MODEL definition in ISPF Panels.

This request asks for the ability to end a )MODEL definition in an ISPF panel to allow additional panel content. This adds the ability to have static text after an ISPF Table display and provides additional flexibility.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

move ISFP variable storage from "below the line" to include "above the line"

the PL/I application gets S878 Abend when running in a stressed scenario, the problem determination documented in PMR 86996,999,000shows that ISPF runs out the below the line storage. The recommended solution is to request ISPF to implement an enh...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

SF line command should work for data set aliases

When you display a data set alias in the ISPF option 3.4 data set list and issue the SF line command, you get message: ISRU006 Not real data set name - The selected option cannot process an alias data set name. The messages and codes manual does n...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration