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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Editors
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 24, 2022

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LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank line with the LPEX editor a record is created with length zero. This leads to differences when comparing 2 members with blank lines made with the 2 editors. A new preference to let the LPEX editor behave as the ISPF editor regarding blank lines would be useful. See also CASE TS009488512 : Currently the LPEX editor was not designed to match the ISPF editor behavior. Development suggested to create a request for enhancement which can be done in the IBM Ideas portal. The enhancement that was suggested is to create a LPEX editor preference that would set the minimum line length to a number like 1 ( creating a space) and the default would be set to 0 so that existing customers would not be impacted.
Idea priority Medium
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    |     Jul 12, 2022
    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently in line with our product strategy and we added it as a candidate for future releases of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

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