I know that you can jump from session to session with triggers and issue a START sess command from the command line, but many times session entries have to be changed or viewed and the only way to do that is to locate the entry itself thru scrolling or paging - this is a real pain when there are many session entries, no matter how well they are organized into groups which are meaningless for locating an entry when you cannot remember what group or display status it was assigned.
I just brought up this topic since the merits of Supersession were already being discussed, and I have spent years cursing Supersession because I can never easilly find an entry I need to look at or modify. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Supersession to CA-TPX On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:21:01 -0400, Barkow, Eileen <[email protected]> wrote: >Since SuperSession is so great (and it is much better than TPX and from >what I remember of Session Manager), how come it is so hard to find a >session entry. When you have a menu with a hundred of more sessions, a >simple 'FIND sessid' would be most helpful instead of having to scroll >down thru numerous entries, but the 'SuperProgrammers' who wrote the >thing could never figure out a way to do this. > I don't want to get dragged into a debate about individual features of every single session mgr I mentioned. My comments were my personal opinion based on the overall products & features, not one specific feature that session mgr xx could do and session mgr zz could not. But to answer your question... I never had a need to do a "find". I set my most used sessions to show up at the top, and also selected the option to create a new "page" for each group. If you are not familiar with that option, it will show only those sessions on your screen (even if only a few) and then you page forward (PF8) to get to the next group. Also, I rarely used anything but triggers that I was able to set up myself to bounce from session to session. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
