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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2023

Enhance ALL ISPF Member Lists with PDSE Member Generation Support

Enhance ISPF member lists, however and where ever generated, to include PDSE member generations in a seamless display.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 11, 2023

    Every open-source tool that I've seen that supports member generations, and several IBM and ISV products, include member generation information in the standard member list display. FileManager hides the support under PDSE Workbench which does provide a usable member list with generations.

    A suggestion is to provide two new member list commands, GEN ON and GEN OFF, which will show or hide the display of generations - and if provided then an ISPCCONF option to set a default (recommend ON) as a site wide default.