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ISPF

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ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit custom hilities

Allow ISPF EDIT users to create a customize scheme for highlighting lines and text within EDIT. This would include: - Comments (entire line or in-line) - Keywords (allow for up to 4 different colors) - Punctuations (comma, semi-colon, etc) - Block...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN ( DDLIST ) utility

It seems to me that SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN utility could be helpful.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Table Services with TBHIDE and TBFLIP capability

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST SRCHFOR Results Selection Enhancement

The current results of the SRCHFOR and MEM within DSLIST (ISPF 3.4) present an indication of which datasets the results were found but there is no way to then select (browse/edit/view/...) the dataset with just the results. There needs to be a way...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Allocation Functions should allow more xBYTE sizes

I have an open RFE to get additional size specifications in JCL and IDCAMS. This is to have ISPF Panels to provide the same size entries Currently panels like 3.2 DataSet Utility allow for Bytes, KiloBytes and MegaBytes I would like to see the add...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
12 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

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

Enhance ISPF LMMLIST to support PDSE Member Generations

When listing a PDSE with member generations include the base member *and* all generations, both the abolute and relative generations. Will need to include when the base member has been deleted by TSO DELETE leaving the newest generation as an orph...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF LMMDEL to support PDSE Member Generations

If use on a member generations then just delete that generation. If use on generation 0 (base member) then delete the base member and *all* generations.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration