On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:58 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The ISPF Data Set List Exit gets invoked once after the Data Set List >Utility Panel is filled in and then again for each data set that is >about to be displayed in the list. > >The first invocation provides an opportunity for the exit to change the >data set name and/or the volume. > >The subsequent invocations allow the exit to decide if the candidate >data set should actually be displayed. The parameter list for this >invocation contains five parameters. The second and third are the data >set name and volume "as specified on the 3.4 panel." > >My questions are: > > The process stops scanning the input data set name for a match >at the first blank, eliminating the need to blank out the rest of the >field. When the name is passed to the exit on the first invocation, is >it the entire input field or just the part that is used to perform the >match? > > On the subsequent invocations, are the second and third >parameters really as specified on the panel or do they reflect any >changes made during the first invocation? > This is better asked on ISPF-L (although I think you did recently and I was waiting for an ISPF developer to answer). The way I would find out (without it being clearly documented) would be to blow up the exit and look at a dump. It should be easy enough to get your answers that way. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
