From: Don Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And also, to *not* becoming an obstacle preventing people from using new
features. I know of a shop that until recently was using an ISPCMDS table
that was 10 years out of date. Many 'new' commands like DDLIST, DTEST,
CMDE, AUTOTYPE and NRETRIEV etc were simply not available, even though a
current version of ISPF was installed.
Which is why a shop should never customize ISPCMDS. If it isn't customized,
it can't get out of date. These days, there is no reason to be using a
customized version of ISPCMDS. Here's a couple of tests:
1) Go into ISPF option 3.9 and take a look in the right column. If all the
slots aren't filled with values, someone isn't doing their job properly.
2) Enter DDLIST (or TSO ISRDDN) on any ISPF command line. Then enter ONLY
ISPTLIB. Finally, enter M ISPCMDS. If more than one version of ISPCMDS shows
up in the left column, someone has created a customized version of ISPCMDS.
In that case, someone needs to find out why and get rid of the customized
versions.
Dave Salt
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