I've never done this, but I believe that ISPF stats occupy additional (optional) space in a directory entry. It might happen that adding stats to an already full directory could lead to space constraints. This problem is not insurmountable but one to be anticipated just in case.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dana Mitchell Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Running ISPF's 3.5 utility from a clist Another option is if you have/can get PDS command from CBTTAPE File182. It has ATTRIB ADDSTATS command to add or change ISPF stats on member of a pds. Dana On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:13:24 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote: >I do not know of a way to run the ISPF utility, but I have a couple options: >#1. CBTTAPE "**FILE 703" Has a utilty to convert one stat format to ISPF >stats, so it might be a starting point to do what you want. > >#2. There is a product available called, "REXXTOOLS/MVS" from "Open Software >Technologies, Inc." >www.open-softech.com >Within this package is the BPAM interface that provides, "Direct support for >creation, retrieval, and update of ISPF statistics." > >It does work, I have used it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
