In fact I used to do that; I was an employee at a truck manufacturer for 14 year and had those commands, and a few others, in my command table. But by the time I started contracting in '96, I'd forgotten exactly where to get at the command table, and just got used to typing the TSO prefix. Now I do it without thinking. Every so often I think about looking it up and doing it again, but nah, if I type "tso" without thinking then it'd slow me down to try to remember ~not~ to do it.
...Although occasionally I type too fast and drop a letter. Maybe I should think again. And yes, I learned long ago that personal, idiosyncratic tools are personal and idiosyncratic. I would be delighted if everyone tried my tools and thought they were the best thing since sliced bread, but that happens only rarely. I did, once years ago, write a tool for a bunch of DYL users at my company. We were teaching them how to write their own inquiries using DYL-280II, instead of interrupting the developers with ad-hoc requests, and it was such a hit that we set up a special initiator for DYL jobs - two of them, in fact, I think - and the users sometimes had to wait two to four hours for their job to run, only to learn when it finally got to the head of the line that they'd forgotten to declare a variable or something. So I wrote a REXX, and named it DYLCHK, that "compiled" their code in the foreground and told them right away whether their code was syntactically correct. I left there in '96, and I heard later they're still using it. So I feel all validated. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality. -C S Lewis, "The Weight of Glory" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 15:14 You can easily add "ed" to the ISPF command table (I think it's table ISPCMDS) and drop the "TSO". Write an exec that TBADDs each command. Additionally, I find I need to refer back to the original screen. I start a new screen from the exec so both can be seen using swap. Having a command to display a reflist can also useful. Let your tools work for you instead of you working for your tools. If it works for you then use it but don't do it because we find it useful. > --- On Friday, August 4, 2023 at 10:15:01 AM PDT, Bob Bridges > <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > I generally type "tso ed <dsn>" on the ISPF command line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
