IBM Mainframe Forum

[20sam13]

By any chance, does anyone have some "slick" TSO/z-OS command line tools I can send to my mainframe group to possible inclusion in our other clist tools?

Such as:

BR14 - will scan thru the JCL member being edited and add a //step00 exec pgm=iefbr14 for all of the DSNs with a disp of (new, catlg, delete), mod, old - and other valid combinations?

PARAON - will scan thru a cobol program being edited and insert a display of the paragraph name just below the paragraph name?

PARAOFF - will scan thru and find those displays and remove them.

BCSR - will open a DSN in browse, if the cursor is placed on the line with the DSN=
ECSR - will open a DSN in edit, if the cursor is placed on the line with the DSN=

FAB - will open fileaid in browse mode with the PDS name where FAB is entered immediately to the left of the name in a DSN list.
FAE - will open fileaid in edit mode with the PDS name where FAE is entered immediately to the left of the name in a DSN list.

Plus other very useful shortcuts.

Before someone "snarks" at the request, we have a few commands, but the systems people have not obtained/created very many of them for use.

The 2nd part of the question is, how does one setup the "system" clists and any I may write myself to not require the TSO be typed before the clist name?

Thanks for all your help!!
-Scott

[enrico-sorichetti]

but the systems people have not obtained/created very many of them for use.

then You should learn to live without them

why not search yourself what is available at http://www.cbttape.org ???

or google for REXX TSO TOOLS ... the search will return quite a few links with lots of useful info

or for Mark Zelden, Lionel B. Dyck, Doug Nadel, Gilbert Saint Flour,

[dick scherrer]

Hello,

If you intend to pursue this, suggest you consider REXX instead of Clist . . .

[20sam13]

My mistake in terminology. Rexx Exec's is the correct terminology, just always knew them as "Clist's".

[Akatsukami]

The 2nd part of the question is, how does one setup the "system" clists and any I may write myself to not require the TSO be typed before the clist name?

You'll want to look at the topic "Using command tables to define commands" in the z/OS ISPF User's Guide, Vol. I.

[dick scherrer]

Hello,

Rexx Exec's is the correct terminology, just always knew them as "Clist's".

It is not just a matter of terminology.

They are completely different languages with very different syntaxes.