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    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 9 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.
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

    Color the different file types in ISPF UDLIST

    In ISHELL it is possible to maintain the colors of the different file types in a file list. For example yellow for Symlinks, red for Directories, green for regular files.It would be nice to have this feature in UDLIST too.
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future 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...
    almost 3 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.
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 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 ...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

    Externalize the ISPF 3.4 FREE option

    ISPF 3.4 (DSLIT) provides a FREE dataset selection option that will release unused space. Please provide an external interface via an ISPF Service that will accomplish this so that it can be used programatically.
    almost 3 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 ...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future 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...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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