Read Currently opened changeman pakage Member using rexx?

lohithegde · New User Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 21 Location: Chennai

Hi

i want to read the name of change man packege member which is opened in edit mode,like a PDS. I tried with
"ISREDIT MACRO"
"ISREDIT (CURRMBR) ="MEMBER
SAY CURRMBR

but it is not working.

dick scherrer · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

Hello,

lohithegde · New User Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 21 Location: Chennai

In changeman Package member (SAY Name XXXXXXXX) i ran the following code..

"ISREDIT MACRO"
"ISREDIT (CURRMBR) ="MEMBER
SAY "Curent Member = " CURRMBR

output is :
Curent Member =
nothing is coming in the output...The expected output is XXXXXXXX
Please help me regarding this

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:14 am Post subject:

lohithegde,

first you need to download a copy of the ispf edit macro documentation. ISPZEM50.pdf

then you need to understand that what changeman is presenting to you is not a member of a PDS, but a qsam file. So use the dsn EDIT command that you will find in the book.