Copy the lines to multiple destinations at one shot

Murari Chakrakodi · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:27 pm

Hi All,

Is there any way to copy the lines to multiple destination. We will use CC CC in the line to be copied and use A or B to copy into new destination after the line or before the line respectively. Can we have any command or tool to copy it to multiple destination?

Thanks,
Murari

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:29 pm

no, but You can try to write Your own edit macro to do it

Douglas Wilder · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:15 pm

If you use the "CUT" primary command (with CC line command) and "&PASTE KEEP" primary command (with A or B line command) you can avoid putting the CCs in over and over again.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:54 am

The ISPF release I'm currently using allows multiple destinations for MOVE and COPY line commands, and block MM and CC also. See the help panels.

expat · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:24 am

Or if you need to do this to many members / datasets, try writing an ISPF edit macro.

diwa_thilak · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:13 am

I beleive you cannot copy a set of lines to multiple datasets at a same time.
Instead you can retain the data using the CUT option and reuse.
Example
cc..cc the number of lines and enter CUT A1
it will store the data in a storage A1. You can re-use it as many times as you want by entering paste A1 in your destination dataset.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:59 am

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:20 pm

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:25 pm

Hello Murari,

Did you try what Douglas has said -- that works pretty well for me. And unless you mean something different than what is posted by you in origianl post, it should suffice for your need.

Ziquilix · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:38 am

I know this is resurrecting an old post but the actual answer which helped me is RRn and RR. This answer came up in Google which, I think, is not 100% accurate. So if you add a number to the Repeat block command you will coppy the blocked lines n times.

sergeyken · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:12 pm

There are enhanced ISPF EDIT line commands to specify multiple destination, in order to copy/move/paste the same chunk of lines to several points at once. Those are:

AK (After and Keep) - to insert after the marked line, and keep lines for extra insertions.

BK (Before and Keep) - to insert before the marked line, and keep lines for extra insertions.

You need to mark as many positions as you like with AK/BK, and finally mark the last of desired positions with regular A/B. After the Enter has been pressed, the same group of lines will be inserted simultaneously to all marked positions.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:04 pm