Tom,
The earlier suggestion to read right thru all the HELP screens
is excellent.
(i) Profiles
These profiles are dependent on the third-level qualifier (in my
experience) so EXEC, CNTL, COBOL etc all can have different settings
I run an edit macro called SAVEON which sets things up to be convenient
for me
....EXEC (FIXED - 80)....RECOVERY OFF....NUMBER OFF.....................
....CAPS OFF....HEX OFF....NULLS OFF....TABS OFF....SETUNDO STG.........
....AUTOSAVE ON....AUTONUM OFF....AUTOLIST OFF....STATS ON..............
....PROFILE UNLOCK....IMACRO SAVEON....PACK OFF....NOTE ON..............
....HILITE REXX CURSOR FIND.............................................
(ii) edit macros
Give you a world of power; I have written hundreds to do all sorts of
tasks.
You can detect the word under the cursor and assign PF keys to macros
that run in the editor.
(iii) Macros for outside editor
You can also detect the word under the cursor in TSO outside of editor
and assign PF keys to rexxes/programs that run outside the editor.
(iv) No VSAM
as you observe editor does not play with VSAM. Perhaps your company
licences FILE-AID from Compuware? We (Tax Office) actually have it so
that B or E or V in a 3.4 list against a VSAM will invoke FileAid
instead of (inapplicable) ISPF Browse.
(v) ISPF-L and TSO-REXX and IBM-MAIN mailing lists
Are great places for sharing. Are friendly lists.
Must be read daily to retain your sanity when working in mainframe
environment.
You may end up with a hundred or more routines "found" on these lists,
as well as hundreds you write yourself.
A lot of these should have been written by IBM to save us the trouble
but at least we can help each other.
(vi) FTP
We have recently had a long round of FTP-related postings so I won't go
into FTP here.
(vii) CBT Tapes
Atrociously named site I think it's www.cbt.org but a treasure-trove of
freeware.
Hope this helps,
Jim
Canberra
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