SET PENDING is incredibly useful in XEDIT macros, but I've never been tempted to use it from the command line.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 6:39 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: pending edit line commands WAS: CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI) V2R1 RELEASED! External Message: Use Caution More precisely, it's a programmatic way to put a prefix command in the prefix area of a line, from a macro or even from the commandline--if the cursor is on the commandline and you're a touch typist, SET PENDING MM may be faster/easier than cursor/mouse to the prefix area of the current line (especially in Ye Olden Days, when bandwidth was more of an issue). If you go all the way back to EDGAR, it offered a very robust set of SOS ("Screen Operation Simulation") commands; XEDIT has a few, but not as complete as EDGAR. Presumably they were found to be not used enough, and/or the other XEDIT capabilities that far exceeded EDGAR's superseded them. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: pending edit line commands WAS: CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI) V2R1 RELEASED! SET PENDING is an XEDIT command that places a line command in the sequence area of a specified line and leaves it pending until the user hit ENTER. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 4:14 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: pending edit line commands WAS: CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI) V2R1 RELEASED! External Message: Use Caution On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:01:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >Has IBM added an equivalent to SET PENDING? Without that I don't see how to do >it in an EDIT macro. I'm guessing that "SET PENDING" means pending EDIT line commands because I can't think of anything else that could be pending in edit. Destination and invalid line commands are always pending until there is a request to process them. Processing for invalid line commands requires an edit macro to process the specific invalid line command versus destinations can include source line commands (e.g. C). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
