Tip of the Day

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:14 am

If you want to make your VSAM data set read-only, use INHIBIT with ALTER command. E.g. ALTER XXX.XX.DATA INHIBIT ALTER XXX.XX.INDEX INHIBIT

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:48 am

SORT CHA / SORT CHANGED If we want to know what are all components modifed recently in a PDS. Go to PDS, type SORT CHA or SORT CHANGED, all members will be sorted on modifed date and time.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:57 am

For a "sometimes" shortcut method of sorting, just key "sort" at the command line, place the cursor on the heading of the column you want to sort on, and hit "enter".

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:20 pm

Terry, Thanks for participating in..

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Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:01 am

Use TSO HOMETEST to find the Mainfram IP. This IP Address can be used with FTP GET , to unload files from mainframe.

rakesha.hg · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:25 pm

hi,

This is for the people who use extra to connect to mainframes ...

whenever you open a dataset ... if we press home(crsr returns to command position) --- this column is always 7 .....

The Menu bar at the top (file,edit ....compiler) .... The Compiler 'Compiler' is column 40(which is standards for alignment usually) ....

i think this will save us some time typing COLS command.

I just want to know whether we can post these kinda tips!(if not please remove it)

Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:26 pm

To save myself from some keying, I assign "res;col" to F14 since I oftentimes start editing COBOL source that way anyway. I usually assign shift+F7 (F19) to UP max and shift+F8 to DOWN max. Same for shift+F10 and shift+F11 for left and right max. Easy to remember.

km_abdullah · New User Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 60

If you want to locate a member in a PDS based on specific userid, type -

SORT ID - now all members would be sorted according to userid(ascending order)

After this to locate the specific user, type -

LOCATE <userid> or simply L <userid>.

Hope this is useful.

Sachinrethin · New User Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Chennai

Want to access the last edited member of your PDS with ease.:

Just open a PDS in Option 3.4. In the menu bar, choose the option “Functions“.

In the drop down menu, choose the option 3 for “Initial Sort View “
Then, Select option 6 in the obtained screen to set the initial sort view (changed)

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:01 pm

Just remember not to fully-trust the ISPF statistics: They can be easily altered using the LMMSTATS service.

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