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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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

USS Health Check for MOUNTS limit

a USS Health Check would give a warning for when a threshold was crossed, alerting users to a fixed limit for the number of files that can be mounted.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP command optimize the default block size for PS-E.

Now DFSMSdss DUMP function makes a output dataset to DASD with half track block size (default). If using 3390 type DASD, default block size is 27998. When output dataset is Extended format (PS-E) , the system adds a 32-byte suffix to each block. S...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

ISPF Allocation (3.2) key label entry should provide an option to validate

The Key Label should be able to be validated prior to allocation. This can be via a selection list or just validating the key label. A selection list would be ideal given the length of the labels and thus the chance of a finger check (user 0FC) :D
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit Compare should support comparing to a different generation

When in ISPF Edit or View the Compare command should be able to compare to an absolute, or relative, generation. compare -2 x compare abc -1 x compare 49 x
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Sorting file/directory names in ISPF UDLIST using case in sensitivity should be configured with a site wide default using ISPCCONF

see idea
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generatlons

TSO Delete currently deletes the PDSE base member (generation 0) and leaves generations -1 and beyond as orphan/ghost members. Delete should delete the base and all generations - with an appropriate message
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

dsfs ls -al should display file size for sequential files

When displaying a list of files using the ll -al command while in /dsfs/txt/hlq the files have a length of 0 or 1 (I'm sure why). This applies to both dsorg(ps) and members of a dsorg(po). The size is accurate once the file, or member, is displayed.
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow a callable workflow to call a callable workflow

Currently an error is produced when a callable workflow attempts to call a callable workflow. Please remove this restriction.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Vary SYNTAXCHECK command

V TCPIP,,SYNTAXCHECK,SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03) EZZ0061I VARY SYNTAXCHECK COMMAND BEGINNING EZZ0300I OPENED SYNTAXCHECK FILE 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03)' EZZ0309I PROFILE PROCESSING BEGINNING FOR 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(T ELNE...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration