Customizing the ISPF HILITE Command

Pedro · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:49 pm

I will be speak at the SHARE conference next week in San Jose. Please attend my session:

Customizing the ISPF HILITE Command
Room: Room 213 Session Number: 20019
Monday, March 06, 2017: 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

In this session, the speaker describes a programming technique that allows you to HILITE arbitrary text in the ISPF editor. The editor's normal highlighting can be extended to highlight additional text. For example, SQL can be highlighted, where language keywords are shown in a different color than punctuation, constants and names. Also covered is some background for the highlighting mechanism. (AD6) (ZOSP1)

don.leahy · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 2:04 am

I'd love to be there, as this is a topic that I have looked into myself, but with only limited success. But my employer doesn't like sending "application" people to SHARE.

I look forward to seeing the presentation slides after the event.

Pedro · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:11 pm

I think anyone can join SHARE.ORG and download the presentation. However, they charge you to attend the conference.

don.leahy · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:27 am

Yes, my employer, like many others, has a corporate membership so there was no cost for me to join. I frequently troll through the vast repository of information found on SHARE.ORG.

But as you say, actually attending a SHARE conference costs money.

Lynne · Active User Joined: 15 Jan 2015 Posts: 107 Location: USA

prino · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:36 am

Look for File # 967 CBT Usermods Collection for ISPF (CUCI) on the CBT tape website

Lynne · Active User Joined: 15 Jan 2015 Posts: 107 Location: USA

I do not have the application to open an XMI file.

Don't they have something in a Word/powerpoint/pdf format? I've downloaded many SHARE presentations in these more common formats.

Thank you.

Pete Wilson · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:28 pm

Have fun Prino :-)

Always the same select few from my company that get to go...probably always will be

prino · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:41 pm

github.com/dmolony/Xmit - Java, runs everywhere

www.cbttape.org/xmitview.htm - a whole load more

www.cbttape.org/njw/index.html - Windoze

I personally occasionally use XMIT Manager, third in the list above, but most of the time www.cbttape.org/ftp/unxmit/RECV390.zip, which is command-line only, but can handle VB files.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:51 pm

find here the unxmitted file 967

drive.google.com/file/d/1yFJfI5Evvt_vDUsojlOFswX19bMDdETt

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:05 pm

I forgot that github provides the expanded cbttape files

github.com/CBTTape/CBT967

Pedro · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:29 am

re: I am trying to define a Hilite Color profile

I am not sure my presentation covers 'profile' as you describe it. But you can create a custom EDIT/VIEW panel to do arbitrary highlighting.

Lynne, I sent you a private message asking for your email address.

Lynne · Active User Joined: 15 Jan 2015 Posts: 107 Location: USA

I think that would meet my needs.

It is a file that is much used, but not a standard format. It would just really be nice if people could view it with a colors. kind of a really basic color scheme (like no color scheme) that goes on for pages and pages.... when it really has sections and a format.. just hard to decipher the way it displays.

Pedro · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:14 am

Lynne, I sent you a PDF file.

Lynne · Active User Joined: 15 Jan 2015 Posts: 107 Location: USA

Thank you, Pedro. I appreciate it.

I was looking for a way to define a color profile for viewing a file, not a panel, if I am understanding your presentation. I just go to ispf VIEW command to view the file in my rexx. I was hoping to define a new HILITE profile to use for the files my ISPF application displays.

I looked up ISRPXASM, the ISPF user-customizable table, to see if I could add something there.. I figured out where it is on my system, but could find no instructions on how to define a new color profile.

but I will keep looking. Thanks anyway for taking the time to send me the pdf.