Few ISPF Tips

kaleelahamed · New User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Chennai

HI ALL,

I want to take a copy of the same memeber with different name in same PDS. I am able to do this by giving C in front of the needed member and then typing the Project Group Type and new member name.

Is there any simpler way of doing it by giving some * in Project, Group and Type, so that i need not type in the current dataset name again.

This may sound weird, but I feel there mit be an option to do this.

isha rani · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: Reply to: Few ISPF Tips

Hello Iknow,
I am unable to use send user command.
I am getting a meessage 'INVALID COMMAND'.
Could you please help me on this.

thanks.

nuthan · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Hi Isha,

Try to use
SEND 'your message' USER(userid)

It will be better if u start a new topic instead of a posting it in an old post.

sun_job · New User Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Bangalore

Hi
go to ISPF 3.4 ,
enter KEYS in the command line,KEYS window will popup
set any key to AUTOTYPE, save and exit
now type any Dataset partially and press the assigned Function key

Hope this will help u

venkatesh kudire · New User Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Hyderabad

THANK U ANU

S0C7 · New User Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 22

To add to spanda, you may also put DSNVIEW on the command like and give the DSN name to open it in view mode directly.

Cheers!
S0C7

HappySrinu · Active User Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 191 Location: India

it's wonderul tips anuradha..
thanks for posting

Erikson Taparan · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:29 am Post subject:

This works for z/OS. I haven't tried for others:

If you want to issue X ALL; F <STRING> ALL,
you can just type in Y <STRING>

Anuj D. · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

Hello,

"Y" may be a local command at your shop, which is mapped to the combination of above used two commands - it does not work for me.

Erikson Taparan · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

Well, maybe, but a friend of mine from a different installation said it works for her. I don't know why.. Well.. Maybe you are right. Perhaps a macro or something..

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:02 am Post subject:

Hello,

Erikson Taparan · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:49 am Post subject:

Thanks Dick,

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