I have been using ISPF workplace extensively for years now but, for some reason, I cannot convince anyone else to use it. It is very useful when you have to work with different systems that use different conventions for the same type of files, like SMF, SMPE, DCOLLECT reports, SYSLOG, to name a few. You can create lists with the same name on each system so you will not have to remember which is the dataset name on that particular system. It is a very useful feature, for a few of us at least. Best wishes Jack
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023, 19:16 Schmitt, Michael <michael.schm...@dxc.com> wrote: > You, sir, win the 100 points I have been waiting to award anyone who can > figure out how to effectively use the ISPF Workplace. > > Now explain it to the rest of us. 😉 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 12:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: > How it runs and why it survives > > I use data set lists in the ISPF workplace (option 11) for similar reasons. > I have rarely used 3.4 for decades. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2023 13:14:54 -0400, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >No, sorry, what I really mean is that instead of going to ISPF option 2 > and typing in a DSN, I generally type "tso ed <dsn>" on the ISPF command > line. Same for VW and BR, and a few other REXX execs. > > > >The ED, BR and VW commands run the DSN I give it through RENDSN, a > routine that checks the string against a list I maintain. So if I say "tso > ed jg", it'll look up JG and return the name of whatever PDS I'm using at > the current installation for general JCL. The RENDSN list has a few dozen > DSNs in it that I use often enough to bother recording them; that way I > don't have to remember the name of the production CFILE, or where the > SuperSession parms are stored, or whether at this client the common REXX > library for the security team is this or that. So most of my most commonly > used "DSNs" are really two- or three-char shortcuts. Saves me some > thinking and a lot of typing. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
