On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:23:14 -0700, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 4 Mar 2008 12:03:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Schwarz, >Barry A) wrote: > >>I've never seen any SDSF data in ISPF Help. SDSF does have help panels. >>They are not bad as reference but it is difficult to find anything if >>you don't already know the exact command. For example, is FINDLIM a >>command or an operand on the SET command? If SDSF Help had an index and >>a tutorial like ISPF, I think it would be more useful. While I do have >>some success with ISPF, Windows and even SDSF Help, I must admit to >>being a manual bigot. It is just much easier for me to find what I want >>in a PDF. > >Even with a manual, what do you do if you remember there is a FLIP >command (flipping excluded and non excluded lines in edit or view). >But you don't remember what it's called. You try SWAP, EXCHANGE, >etc. How do you find it? > You use words that describe what the command / function does (like "exclude*"). This is the same thing you would do to search the MVS commands manual (or any other manual) or even a search engine. It may take you a few tries or different keywords but you should find it eventually. I think the point of the OP is that there is no standard way to search ISPF help that is contained in panels. So to answer the OP: What I would do (and have done in the past) is to use PDS86 (and it's predecessors / sister product) to search the panel library or a SYSHELP concatenated library. 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 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
