For every z/OS release we also create a "What's new in SDSF" style presentation 
that we give at Share and GSE and then upload to the IBM Education GitHub. 
There is also an in-product help table of new functions for the release.

As for SDSF rexx examples, you can use the RGEN command that will generate 
sample rexx statements to navigate to where you currently are in the product OR 
use "RGEN X" to pick a sample from the supplied list of basic scenarios.

Rob Scott
Rocket Software.

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Friday, a little bit off-topic, but still about mainframes and SDSF

SDSF is great tool. I was enhanced significantly last years. I like it.
However I observe many users are simply *not aware* of many new features.
They obviously use panels, which are visible in main menu, but they miss
many other tools.
I believe everything is documented, but it is rather rare that someone
read whole documentation as a novel.

Q: is there any presentation or whitepaper describing "new and shining"
things in SDSF?

Regarding SDSF and REXX - I miss simple examples. It is not only
SDSF-related pain. I observe many z/OS users are looking for code
samples via Google search and we find some bad or very bad ones,
submitted on some forums.

My €0.02

Regards
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland






W dniu 14.06.2024 o 20:20, Rob Scott pisze:
> I must admit that I find nothing amiss with the quoted section.
>
> It describes the syntax requirements of the SDSF-specific ISFEXEC verb.
>
> It does not get into any generic REXX techniques to provide the statement 
> buffer to the verb as that is not required in this case.
>
> Contrast that with the documentation for ISFSLASH that does include required 
> REXX techniques as it supports alternate input using stem variables.
>
> The product documentation is written by information development team members, 
> but based on input provided by the development team. In this case, that 
> developer (not me) has decades of asm, plx and rexx experience and is fully 
> aware of the nuances of the language.
>
> The documentation will always be updated when required for the current (most 
> recent) release.
>
>
>
> Rob Scott
> Rocket Software
>
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