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Allow the User to Define Edit Line Command Table for ALL Edit Sessions

Allow each ISPF user to define the Edit Line Command Table to be used for *ALL* ISPF Edit sessions regardless of how ISPF Edit is invoked.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

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

IEBCOPY - Eliminate duplicate options COPYGRP/COPYGROUP to eliminate confusion

There are two confusingly similar options - COPYGROUP and COPYGRP. One is a superset of the other. This presents confusion to typical users who find the option that 'sounds' or 'reads' like it will do what they want but really doesn't. This presen...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss support backup/restore of OFFLINE Volumes (like CA:Disk)

We are doing (consistent) Volume FlashCopy (with NOCOPY).Because of Duplicate VOLSER the FlashCopy Target Volume is OFFLINE.We need IBM utility to COPY this Volume to (virtual)Tape
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Add DSFS DeleteParm to remove obsolete HLQ's

Since Delete is out of scope for the CreateParm then please create a DeleteParm, or something, that can be used to remove obsolete HLQ's defined via CreateParm.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Support for include/exclude lists in automount facility

We'd like the ability to select/exclude which systems are assigned automove=Y automounted file systems in the /etc/u.map parameter file.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

SDSF DA should show zIIP in title line

SDSF DA (Display Active) shows in the title line the CPU usage from current LPAR, from the whole CEC and (if you have one) the zAAP usage.zAAPs are replaced by zIIPs.So please show the current zIIP usage in the title line.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

DfSMSdss generic RENAME to allow change in number of qualifiers

DfSMSdss provides the RENAME and RENAMEUNCONDITIONAL options to rename datasets when they are restored or copied, either by changing the first-level qualifier of the dataset name, or by matching the dataset name to an 'old-name' in a list of (old-...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration