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    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...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

    ISPF Enhanced PANEL Edit highlighting

    The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support enhanced highlighting for the ISPF PANEL language. ISPF PANEL highlighting is very sparse, not highlighting over 170 keywords used by the PANEL language. PANEL developers on z/OS will experience signif...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

    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.
    about 8 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 *...
    about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

    ISPF HILITE PLI - keywords missing

    The IBM supplied ISP.SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) from z/OS 2.1 (RSU1504?) lacks four PL/I keywords
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 7 Planned for future release

    Add command to limit find/change/exclude commands to specific vertical range

    It is possible to limit both the "width" and "depth" of the ISPF editor F(ind), C(jange) and (e)X(clude) commands, by specifying bounds and labels. Of these two, the bounds ("width") can be set using the "BOUNDS" primary and/or "BNDS" line command...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

    ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

    Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

    Add ISPF Paste DIsplay to allow Selection

    Enhance the ISPF Paste command to support a Display (or Select) option to display a list of all available clipboards to select from.
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

    Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

    During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Support recataloging of SMS NVSAM data sets which have become uncataloged

    ISPF is unable to catalog NVSAM data sets which reside on system managed dasd and have become uncatalogued. Request that ISPF be updated to handle a catalog request from 3.4 to recatalog a system managed data set using the IDCAMS RECATALOG. comman...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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