Carlson and Shaffer [B.C. Carlson, D.B. Shaffer, Starlike and prestarlike hypergeometric functions, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 15 (1984) 737–745] have introduced a linear operator associated with the Gaussian hypergeometric function which has been generalized by Dziok and Srivastava [J. Dziok, H.M. Srivastava, Classes of analytic functions associated with the generalized hypergeometric function, Appl....