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ISPF/PDF Continued Support

This is not so much an idea, but rather a plea: Please continue full support of the ISPF/PDF product. It's a GREAT product. Many fellow programmers, myself included, find little use for things like IDZ when demo'd; sure, there's a lot of neat Gee ...
3 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Provide a negative exclude command for EDIT and VIEW

Provide e an NEXCLUDE command similar to FIND and EXCLUDE that excludes all lines in the specified range that do not match the specified picture, regex or string in the specied columns.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

ISPF editor: New move command to move a column in file/member.

We want to move columns to another position. Example: Command ===> MVC 7 8 13 Move columns 7-8 to position 13 Example for input 11 12 13 1421 22 23 2431 32 33 2541 42 44 45 Output of MVC 7 8 13: 11 12 14 1321 22 24 2331 32 25 3341 42 45 44 Kind...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Edit line command to insert blank lines

Faster and fewer key strokes
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Make Point-and-shoot fields uneditable

ISPF Point-and-shoot fields are of great help to ISPF users. They enable the user to conveniently "shoot" commands while being with the cursor in the context of the action. Point-and-shoot fields comes with another great User Setting: Tab to point...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Enhance ISPF Services to Dynamically Support 8 Character Userids

Today the user code is responsible to determine if the userid is 8 characters and thus require, in the case of LMMSTATS the use of USER8, instead of the USER keyword. The service should be able to determine this dynamically so the developer using ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Free screen size in ISPF

As monitor size have increased and the format of monitor have change from 4:3 to 16:9 I see a lot of monitor setups with monitors in landscape and portrait mode. And with 27" and 32" monitors a lot more can be showed on screen. At the moment ISPF ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

in the panel editing: I would like the option of exporting the panel definitions into a text-source format with tools around it to be able to create pannels with ISPF statements. The definition should fit in a functional design, also context sensitive info for the end-user.

shorten the distance between functional design and program
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Not under consideration

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