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SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN ( DDLIST ) utility

It seems to me that SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN utility could be helpful.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Future consideration

ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

ISPF Edit access to Edit Info/Msg/Note records

Using ISPF Edit one can access all standard records but the Info/Msg/Note records are currently hidden to the Edit macro. Having access would provide additional capabilities to exploit these messages.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 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...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Planned for future release

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...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 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...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Future consideration

Add TOP option to ISPF MEMLIST dialog service

Enhance the ISPF MEMLIST dialog service to include an option such as TOP(membername) as is found in LMMDISP. This would permit the MEMLIST invocation to scroll a specified member to the top of the resulting member list. The behavior would be the s...
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Future consideration

Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

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