IBM OS/390 manual Submitting Jobs, Using Ispf Utilities

∙finding specific character strings in the data, changing them to other character strings or to exclude the lines that contain strings,

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setting HEX mode on to allow you to display data in hexadecimal format,

using language sensitive coloring, which highlights program constructs based on the programming language, improving readability,

∙using the HILITE command to change the enhanced coloring and language sensitive coloring options of the editor.

For situations where some type of repetitive change may be required, users can write their own edit macros to perform the needed changes. ISPF provides a macro language which allows users to perform editing functions from a REXX exec, CLIST, or program.

ISPF also provides online models that can be inserted into the dialog. A model is an example of a service call, panel format, table format, or message that contains the proper syntax and all the available parameters for the programming language being used. Since these models are online, they can be called directly into the member being edited.

Distributed edit provides a seamless interface to edit a host file using a workstation editor or a workstation file using the ISPF editor. Distributed edit offers a significant opportunity for offloading host CPU cycles.

For more information see OS/390 ISPF Edit and Edit Macros.

27.1.2 Submitting Jobs

TSO provides a SUBmit command that can be used from the TSO command line interface for submitting jobs. In addition one can submit jobs while editing a data set using the ISPF editor. If the first line of the data set is not a jobcard, then a jobcard will be automatically built using parameters from the TSO logon. In that case the job name would be the TSO user ID suffixed by a user supplied character. The RACF user ID for the job is normally the same RACF user ID as was used by the TSO logon.

27.1.3 Using ISPF Utilities

In addition to editing of data sets, ISPF utilities are available to allocate, delete, catalog, uncatalog, and compress data sets, and display statistics about an entire data set or volume. ISPF also allows you to copy, move, rename, print, delete, and display information about members in a partitioned data set.

Note: In some situations such as copying or compressing large partitioned data sets, it may be better to use a batch utility such as IEBCOPY run as part of a job, than to perform the function under TSO/ISPF.

ISPF provides a utility option to create the IDCAMS commands to define, delete, and list catalog information for VSAM data sets.

ISPF provides a SuperC utility to compare data sets of unlimited size and record length at the file, line, word, or byte level. There is also a Search-For utility that can be used to search your data sets or PDS members for one or more character strings.

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