You, sir, win the 100 points I have been waiting to award anyone who can figure out how to effectively use the ISPF Workplace.
Now explain it to the rest of us. 😉 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 12:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives I use data set lists in the ISPF workplace (option 11) for similar reasons. I have rarely used 3.4 for decades. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 4 Aug 2023 13:14:54 -0400, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: >No, sorry, what I really mean is that instead of going to ISPF option 2 and >typing in a DSN, I generally type "tso ed <dsn>" on the ISPF command line. >Same for VW and BR, and a few other REXX execs. > >The ED, BR and VW commands run the DSN I give it through RENDSN, a routine >that checks the string against a list I maintain. So if I say "tso ed jg", >it'll look up JG and return the name of whatever PDS I'm using at the current >installation for general JCL. The RENDSN list has a few dozen DSNs in it that >I use often enough to bother recording them; that way I don't have to remember >the name of the production CFILE, or where the SuperSession parms are stored, >or whether at this client the common REXX library for the security team is >this or that. So most of my most commonly used "DSNs" are really two- or >three-char shortcuts. Saves me some thinking and a lot of typing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
