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ISPF DSLIST Support of FLIP and HIDE Commands Comparable to EDIT/VIEW Primary Commands

The PDF editor "FLIP" primary command reverses the exclude status of a specified group of lines or all the lines in a file, including data, information, message, and note lines. In addition, the "HIDE" primary command removes the "n Line(s) not Di...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored a...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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 Extended Stats when Member Record Count > 64K

With the ability to have PDSE members with more than 64K records the basic ISPF statistics fails. Extended ISPF Stats is an option that must be set site wide or by the individual user/member. Requesting that when a member is saved with more than 6...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

Allow concatenated commands in ISPF ZEXPAND

Allow the use of concatenated commands in ZEXPAND in ISPF.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

The 'S', 'F' and 'L' line commands are used to reshow hidden lines, and can only be entered on lines that are not displayed ***and*** not hidden. It would be very useful if "doubled" ("SS", "FF" and "LL") versions could be used on the lines immedi...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under 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

Provide way to regenerate ISRF05* messages after RESET SPECIAL

When editing or viewing a PDSE V2 member when generations are active, various ISRF05* messages may be inserted at the beginning of the member. Issuing RESET SPECIAL (for example, deleting COMPARE output) will delete these lines. It would be nice i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Allow SRCHFOR parameters like WORD and PREFIX to be usable on command

Currently, to use WORD or PREFIX or other Parameters for the SRCHFOR command, I have to enter SRCHFOR with no other parameters on the Command Line to get a SRCHFOR panel. I want these parameters on the SRCHFOR command like FIND already has.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 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

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