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ISPF

SUPERC and SRCHFOR should honor the configuration table values for temporary data sets.

The configuration table has the following: USE_PDFCUNIT_FOR_TEMP_ISPF_DATA_SETS PDF_DEFAULT_UNIT implying that if you set the first one to Yes, that any temporary data set will use the value from the second one. However, in SUPERC, OLDDD and NEWDD...
almost 14 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

SuperC COMPARE SUMMARY AND STATISTICS report should support line counts over 999,999.

Current, SuperC Compare can compare datasets with more than 999,999 lines. However, the reports can only support line counts as high as 999,999.
almost 14 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
almost 14 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

ISPF Copy, Compare, Search do not support Unix files

ISPF was made Unix aware a few releases back, but functions like ISPF 3.3 copy, ISPF 3.12 and 3.13 SuperC, and 3.14 and 3.15 search were not made Unix aware. These functions should be modified to support Unix filenames.
almost 14 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Let ISPF user select ISRTSO or ISRTSOA Panel

Provide the user with the ability to select which panel to use for TSO commands - either ISRTSO or ISRTSOA rather than forcing this on an installation wide level.
almost 14 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration