You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command
on any ISPF command line:
ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON)
You can turn TPS on or off programatically by doing this:
address ispexec
"CONTROL ERRORS RETURN"
"VGET (ZTPS) PROFILE"
if ztps = "Y" then do
say "Tab to point-and-shoot was on; turning it off"
onoff = "OFF"
end
else do
say "Tab to point-and-shoot was off; turning it on"
onoff = "ON"
end
"SELECT PGM(ISPOPT) PARM(PSTAB("onoff"))"
if rc = 0 then say "Tab to point-and-shoot is now "onoff
else say rc zerrsm zerrlm
EXIT
Hope that helps,
Dave Salt
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> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:16:55 +0200
> From: dt...@dow.com
> Subject: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was
> ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
>
> Hi,
>
> I was actually hoping to see a response to something more similar to
> Mark's interpretation. In particular I wanted a programmatic (REXX) way
> to (re)set the "tab to point and shoot fields" on the way in to
> TSO/ISPF. This in particular because MXI turns it on, but of course if
> you time out, it is left in that state (MXI does clean it up on the way
> out normally). The variable is ZTPS (values 'N' or 'Y').
>
> I do see that I can just edit the ISPSPROF member to change it, but that
> does seem inelegant and (I think) would have to be done before invoking
> ISPF to be properly effective.
>
>
> Best regards,
> David Tidy Tel:(31)115-67-1745
> IS Technical Management/SAP-Mf Fax:(31)115-67-1762
> Dow Benelux B.V. Mailto:dt...@dow.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
> Behalf Of Mark Zelden
> Sent: 11 August 2010 19:01
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:30:49 -0500, Jochen Roehrig
> <jochen.roeh...@baloise.ch> wrote:
>
> >Hi Robert
> >
> >that's it!
> >Shame on me: I knew the RETP, but I never recognized the 'OPTIONS'...
> >
> >Kind regards
> >Jochen
> >
>
> You may have received a quicker answer if the question was more clear.
> But
> maybe it was clear to everyone but me. :-)
>
> I thought you wanted a way to either
>
> a) Change the default via customization table for everyone (which you
> can't because there is no reset value)
>
> b) mass update everyone's ISPF profile because the set a bad default
> in the customization table and already knew you couldn't do the above.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
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