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Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:16 am
by Anuj Dhawan
18. To show 'PF Keys' at bottom of ISPF panel(s) - use command ‘PFSHOW ON’. To hide(remove) them, issue ‘PFSHOW OFF’.
There is another extension of PFSHOW is - PFSHOW TAILOR - it displays a panel that lets you specify the set of function keys (primary, alternate, or all) for which definitions are to be displayed and the number of keys per line to display in each function key definition line.
If you use PFSHOW, it toggles through the different forms of the function key area. The first time you enter the PFSHOW command (without parameters), the long form of the function key area is displayed. If you enter the command again, the short form is displayed. If you enter the command once again, the keys are removed from the display. Therefore, if you continue to enter the command, the different choices are toggled.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 2:09 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
19. While you're in an EDIT mode and want to identify the changes that have been done since the last SAVE command was issued - issue “COMPARE SESSION” on the command line and take it from there.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:14 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
20. Find last occurrence of string "aaa":
The below command, when issued on command line, finds last occurrence of string aaa.
Again, note that the arguments are not positional and may be specified in any order desired - that means, “F LAST aaa” and “F aaa LAST” will behave same.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:45 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
21. Finds first occurrence of string aaa within the lines labeled:
The below command, when issued on command line, Finds first occurrence of string aaa within the lines labeled .X and .Y.
Note that the arguments are not positional and may be specified in any order desired - that means, “
F X. Y. aaa” and “
F aaa X. Y.” will behave same.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:14 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
22. Find the previous occurrence of string "aaa":
The below command, when issued on command line, finds the previous occurrence of string "aaa".
It should be noted that the arguments are not positional and may be specified in any order desired - that means, “F PREV aaa” and “F aaa PREV” will behave same.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:50 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
23. Find hexadecimal values using ISPF commands :
The below command, when issued on command line, finds hexadecimal value ‘123C’
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 11:59 am
by Anjali Chopra
Thanks for sharing all these, they're very helpful!
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:37 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
Glad we had been helpful - and yup, Thanks for the feedback!
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:13 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
24. Following command will change all non-space characters to spaces in columns 15 through 18. One can amend it for your own requirement, as required:
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:21 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
25. Following command changes all lower-case characters into upper case:
One can also use the line command ‘LC’ or ‘UC’, or as block commands ‘LCC’ and ‘UCC’ for this very purpose.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:23 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
26. Following command changes the data to spaces between column 10 through 16. One can amend it as per his need:
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:23 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
27. Any command entered in the COMMAND LINE disappears after the successful execution of its intended function. If you want to repeat the same command , you got to re-type it or use some PF key to retrieve the last command entered.
However, if you precede the commands with '&", the command entered will not disappear and stay on the screen. For example:
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COMMAND ===> &C 'TESTPROG' 'PRODPROG' SCROLL ===> CSR
****** ************************ TOP OF DATA **************
000001 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000002 PROGRAM-ID. TESTPROG.
000003 DATE-WRITTEN. NOV 2013.
'
'
After the execution of the command, the below command stays on the screen. This way you can entering the same command or modifying the command a little and using it multiple times.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:54 pm
by zprogrammer
28.There might be a scenario where you type in lot of things in view mode but later realise you need to save them.
There are two ways of saving the modified data in view mode
1.You could either CUT the data and come back in edit mode and paste and save it or
2.Use this command on command line
OR
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:59 pm
by zprogrammer
29.How to tag or comment a group of continuous data
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000100 Pandora
000200 Testing
000300 something
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
C''''' ' PADDED '
OO Pandora
Testing
OO something
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000010 ' PADDED '
000100 Pandora ' PADDED '
000200 Testing ' PADDED '
000300 something ' PADDED '
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
Also This command you can use to comment a section or Para in cobol rather copy/paste
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:33 am
by zprogrammer
30.Like REPL there is also CREATE
You could use as
Or
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:01 pm
by zprogrammer
31.Text Flow command TF
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000100 TEST1,
000200 TEST2,
000300 TEST3,
000400 TEST4,
000500 TEST5,
000600 TEST6,
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
TF30 TEST1,
000200 TEST2,
000300 TEST3,
000400 TEST4,
000500 TEST5,
000600 TEST6,
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
Output
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****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000100 TEST1, TEST2, TEST3, TEST4,
000200 TEST5, TEST6,
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ****************************
Re: ISPF Tips - Two very handy ISPF commands
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:09 pm
by Quasar Chunawala
32. MOVE/COPY a line to multiple destinations(zOS 1.10 and above)
When you would like to MOVE/COPY a source line to multiple destination lines, you can suffix K to the A,B,O and OO commands. For example, to copy (CC) a block of COBOL code to multiple target destinations, you'd type AK, AK, AK,... line commands followed by A line command on the final destination.
Hiding excluded lines(zOS 1.6 and above)
While preparing a multi-step job or a large JCL, like a LOAD job, you may want to exclude lines and hide them as well. ISPF also has the HIDE command to hide excluded lines.
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:54 am
by enrico-sorichetti
the TF command is one of the most unfriendly ones
NO permanent damage will be done ...
but most of the times the unwary user will have to CANCEL the edit session and start over again
if somebody feels that it is necessary to use it TURN RECOVERY ON
and the acronym TF does not mean Text Formatting, but Text Flow :ugeek:
z/OS V1R12.0 ISPF Edit and Edit Macros SC34-4820-09.
The TF (text flow) line command restructures paragraphs. This is sometimes necessary after deletions, ...
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:33 am
by zprogrammer
Thanks Enrico for the eye opener .. I have editted my post
Re: ISPF Tips.
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:33 am
by zprogrammer
33.
To Find all Alphabetic characters