can we assign a mainframe macro to a key in the keyboard?

sraj · New User Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 4 Location: india

can we assign a mainframe macro to a key in the keyboard so that the macro can be ran by just hitting the key. I am using Attachmate emulator

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:31 pm

and... how does this relate to COBOL ???
topic moved where it belongs

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:34 pm

Have you tried Help on the attachmate screen?

Ronald Burr · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:13 pm

You could try re-mapping one of the PF keys ( e.g. PF14 ) to the name of the macro. Then, whenever you press that PF key, the macro will be invoked.

sraj · New User Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 4 Location: india

Hi,

I typed keys on command line to assign the macro to the function key, my macro name is ENTER so what should i give to assign this macro to pf6?

I tried mainframe help couldn't find related info.

MBabu · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:27 pm

Assign the command to a pf key an then assign the key you want to act as that key. You are limited to 24 keys but some commands like autotype, and nretrieve really belong on the at your finger tips rather than up on that row of function keys.

Update: you are confusing emulator macros and mainframe macros. You don't assign a pf key to an emulator macro since the mainframe know nothing about your emulator.

sraj · New User Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 4 Location: india

My Macros is a mainframe macro, just by giving the macro name to the pf key it wont take do i need to give the library or something so that the pf key will pick my particular macro?

Ronald Burr · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:25 am

Brief answer is 'YES'.
1) 'ENTER' is a poor choice for a macro name assigned to a key other than the ENTER key itself.
2) All the same, to avoid confusion, the macro "value" should be set to "%ENTER" not just plain "ENTER".
3) You must either place the Macro into one of the libraries concatenated to SYSEXEC or SYSPROC, OR insure that the library containing the Macro is "temporarily" allocated to SYSUEXEC ( if the Macro library contains only REXX Execs ) or SYSUPROC ( if the Macro library contains both CLISTs and REXX Execs ). Temporary assignment can be accomplished via the TSO 'ALTLIB' command.