I believe he means from inside of OMVS you can issue "tso ISHELL" and get to the ISHELL menus.
This only works from a 3270 initiated OMVS session and not a ssh login via putty or similar. Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager - Safeway 602 527 4871 Mobile [email protected] IBM Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/16/2018 08:58:37 AM: > From: John McKown <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 03/16/2018 08:58 AM > Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Nightwatch RenBand < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > John, you may already know this, but if you do "TSO ISHELL" you can then d > > B Browse or E Edit on a OMVS file and you have most, perhaps all I haven't > > checked everything, that ISPF editor can do. Try it > > > > > Yes, it has some nice facilities. But I cannot _easily_ invoke UNIX > commands from it, doing "UNIXy" things. And don't get me started on the > TSO OMVS command (which I despise mainly due to the limitations of TSO > 3270). > > Basically what I would like is to "invert" the "normal" process that I've > seen - that being when when someone uses the TSO OMVS command under ISPF to > do UNIX commands while staying in TSO. What I really want is to invoke ISPF > from a UNIX prompt, replacing the 3270 terminal interface with either a > "curses" (aka termcap) or a X11 terminal interface. Being able to do TSO > commands under UNIX ISPF would also be nice. REXX under UNIX has a nice > facility where it starts up a TSO address space when an ADDRESS TSO is > first used in a REXX program; said TSO address space continues until > explicitly shut down via a LOGOFF command or implicitly when the REXX > program ends. > > > -- > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove > it. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
