Hi Dave,
That helps enormously - thanks!
Best regards,
David Tidy
Dow Benelux B.V.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Dave Salt
Sent: 12 August 2010 17:01
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables
programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in
ISPSPROF)
You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this
command on any ISPF command line:
ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON)
You can turn TPS on or off programatically by doing this:
address ispexec
"CONTROL ERRORS RETURN"
"VGET (ZTPS) PROFILE"
if ztps = "Y" then do
say "Tab to point-and-shoot was on; turning it off"
onoff = "OFF"
end
else do
say "Tab to point-and-shoot was off; turning it on"
onoff = "ON"
end
"SELECT PGM(ISPOPT) PARM(PSTAB("onoff"))"
if rc = 0 then say "Tab to point-and-shoot is now "onoff
else say rc zerrsm zerrlm
EXIT
Hope that helps,
Dave Salt
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> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:16:55 +0200
> From: dt...@dow.com
> Subject: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically
(was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
>
> Hi,
>
> I was actually hoping to see a response to something more similar to
> Mark's interpretation. In particular I wanted a programmatic (REXX)
way
> to (re)set the "tab to point and shoot fields" on the way in to
> TSO/ISPF. This in particular because MXI turns it on, but of course if
> you time out, it is left in that state (MXI does clean it up on the
way
> out normally). The variable is ZTPS (values 'N' or 'Y').
>
> I do see that I can just edit the ISPSPROF member to change it, but
that
> does seem inelegant and (I think) would have to be done before
invoking
> ISPF to be properly effective.
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