This should maybe be part of a different thread. Here's a tiny snippet of ISPF edit in batch. I would not call it 'interactive', but it's context sensitive, so results depend on the data being edited. There is no separator character in play. These lines are all in a Rexx.
ADDRESS ISPEXEC "ISREDIT MACRO" "VGET (cpldsn cplvolp cplvola)" ADDRESS ISREDIT "(memname) = MEMBER" /* current member name */ "C ALL 'DEST=TSAF' 'DEST=HOLD3' " "C ALL 1 '// ' '//*' " /* null cards to comments */ "X ALL '//' 1" /* exclude JCL and comment lines */ "F FIRST NX 'DEFINEDS' " /* find first or only define stmt */ "F NEXT NX 'DEFINEDS' " /* find next define stmt, if any */ IF RC = 0 THEN DO /* multiple define stmts found */ "DEL .ZCSR .ZLAST" /* delete extraneous lines */ END . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 9:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: RD/z On 2016-08-29, at 10:35, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > I'm not sure what's being asked for here. ISPF in batch is a well-documented > process. I have batch ISPF jobs that run daily. You don't use separator > characters. You write a Rexx that issues ISPF commands in sequence. You can > edit or use virtually any ISPF function--such as table management--that's > available interactively. > But batch isn't interactive. I perceived the OP as wanting to use interactive (not batch) ISPF as a plug-in editor for RD/z. Does "don't use separator characters" mean that no character is sacrificed as a separator; than one can freely code such as: address ISREDIT 'find a;b' and not having the ";" (or any other character) being taken as a separator? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
