Don't confuse the limitations of the TSO VTIOC for 3270 with the limitations of the application using them. The klunkiness of the OMVS command is because they didn't choose to avail themselves of the available services.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell 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
