Few ISPF Tips

ofer71 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:25 pm

Jagan-S:

Do you have a 3290 terminal? Have you been reading the restriction regarding SPLITV in the fine manual?

Regarding AUTOTYPE, please refer to the fine manual to learn why this command is not so trivial.
O.

Jagan-S · New User Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Kolkata

Hi,

Thanks for informing me on File manual.

Mine is a 3278 terminal.

Cheers
Jagan

crs916 · New User Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Location: india

Hi all,

Thanks for the info

Regards
Ravi

kaleelahamed · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:20 pm

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

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

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: 73 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: Bangalore

Some tips from my side:

Type ‘C’ in a line - it copies that line.
Type ‘Cn’ (n -> 1,2,...) - ‘n’ number of lines copied from the line where you typed ‘Cn’.
Type CC and CC in different lines, the number of lines between block have been copied
Type ‘A’ - it pastes the line copied after the line where you typed ‘A’.
Type ‘B’ - it pastes the line copied before the line where you typed ‘B’.
Type ‘An’ - it pastes the line copied ‘n’ times after the line where you typed ‘A’.
Type ‘Bn’ - it pastes the line copied ‘n’ times after the line where you typed ‘B’.
Type ‘M’ in a line - it copies that line. When you type ‘A’ or ‘B’ after that, the line actually gets moved. It is something like Cut + paste. But ‘C’ is something like Copy + Paste
Type MM and MM in different lines, the number of lines between block have been copied
Type R, it copies the line and pastes in the next line.
Type RR and RR between two different lines, the block is copied and pasted on the next line.

S0C7 · New User Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 26

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: 194 Location: India

it's wonderul tips anuradha..
thanks for posting

darkstar13 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:29 am

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 Dhawan · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:05 am

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.

darkstar13 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:38 am

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

Hello,

darkstar13 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:49 am

Thanks Dick,

This may not be considered as a trick, but it maybe useful:

To add a calendar in your main TPX menu:
Select STATUS tab in the MENU bar and select Calendar

To reverse the exclude status of a range of lines
type FLIP in the command line

To search for picture strings:

ShameemOracle · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 15 Location: bangalore

hi all,

Sorry for the late entry to the list. I would like to list few ISPF tips i came across. Its DSLIST

Situation: I want to list a set of datasets in my 3.4 panel which are having different HLQs or naming convention ( Eg: i need to list all my PARMLIBs CPAC.PARMLIB, SYS1.PARMLIB, SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB ) in single 3.4 panel

Solution: Create a DSLIST and issue DSLIST PARMLIBS (where PARMLIBS is my DSLIST for listing above said parmlibs).

1) go to 3.4 panel and select Ref option2 from Action bar.
2)By default you will see the default REFLIST which has last 30 ref referenced datasets.
3)Take FILE -> New List from Action bar
4)Here in this panel give the names of datasets you wish to list in ur DSLIST. Remember You have to enclose in single quotes in PREFIX is ON. You can use wildcard * for qualifying multiple datasets.
5)Now put S in Action and give a reasonable name for ur list.
6)Done. The list is saved. Now you can call this list from anywhere in ISPF env. Like DSLIST PARMLIBS

Thanks
Shameem

prino · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:26 am

Try Doug Nadel's Add highlighting to SDSF exec. It's a mystery to me as to why something similar hasn't been added to SDSF proper...

JimMoore8686 · Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 1:51 am

Here's a good ISPF Edit tip. Copy/Move one line After/Before/Overlay to more than one target line. Or, one source, many targets.

C line command on the Source line to be Copied
AK (or BK or OK) in place on multiple target lines (Note: I take "AK" to mean - After Keep Going)
Close out with a simple "A" (not AK)

The source line will be sprayed all over, where your AK or BK or OK were placed.

Very nifty.

Watch out for: The unqualified "A" to close out the operation must be the LAST line command in the edit session. That is, it can't be before the "C" (or "M") source line.

Try using clever EXCLUDE commands to minimize the screen space where you want to place the target lines. For example, a piece of JCL with 20 steps. You want to put a comment line BEFORE every step.

Insert a blank JCL comment - //*
Command=> X all;f all PGM=;hide x
Command=> F //* 1
Place "C" line command on this blank comment line

BK liine command on all of the lines containing PGM=; scroll as required, close it out with a plain old "B" line command on final PGM= line.

RES ALL to get back to normal.

Imabeliever · New User Joined: 15 Aug 2019 Posts: 4 Location: Australia

Wow. I haven't kept up with all the changes in ISPF. I wrote macros years ago to do that very thing. Now all they need to do is provide proper regex functions. Although these days I don't bother using 3270 if I can avoid it...Zowe for the win...when it works ;-)