How to differentiate endevor element from PDS member?

dubasir · New User Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

Hi all,
How do I know whether the user opened the member from PDS or endevor (source version control) as I wanted my edit macro to run differently in above cases.

I have tried differetiating with the help of temporary file name given when we open the element in endevor. But it seems like, it varies from system to system.

Is there any other factor that we can capture in macro to differentiate the above. something like Application ID.

Thanks,
Suresh.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:44 pm

You can try using the same logic You used to differentiate between a dfsort/icetool topic and an ISPF one

dubasir · New User Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

Mistakely posted under wrong topic

. Can somebody (moderator) move this ques to ISPF topic.

Thanks,
suresh.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:46 pm

since endevor places the element in a sequential dataset
when you 'browse' an element thru the selection panel
or when you use the QUICK EDIT feature of endevor,
the MEMBER EDIT macro command will populate the variable with spaces

only problem is if your macro is invoked during an EDIT/VIEW session of
a dataset outside of endevor.
then you will not know if it is endevor or not.