Actually, this is a solution to my problem, but it is the opposite of what I 
*thought* you said.

"You can force a command to be passed to the dialog, even if the command exists 
in the command table, by typing a greater-than symbol (>) in front of the 
command."

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=commands-passing-dialog-function


So when I'm trying to hit the "AT" function in the dialog, I can skip the 
command table entry by entering ">AT".


It implies that maybe there's a way to create a command table entry that does 
the same thing, e.g. "ATFUNC" is an alias for ">AT". But I think if I can just 
remember to enter >AT, I'm good.



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Subject: Re: ISPF command table overrides menu

I think that adding a > before the command instruct ispf to use a command
table.

ITschak


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בתאריך יום ו׳, 5 ביוני 2026 ב-15:25 מאת Beate Kawelke <
[email protected]>:

> If you want your command to also work from their panel, I think the only
> solution would be that they change their panel so that its options are
> selected not from the primary command field but from another field in the
> panel.
>
> How many users are affected and what is their skill / resistance to change
> the way they work? If it causes too much trouble, they should move it to a
> separate applid. But that might break some things, too (e.g. the profile
> variable pool is different so they might loose their settings), that should
> be kept in mind.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Beate
>
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> von Schmitt, Michael
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> Betreff: [IBM-MAIN] ISPF command table overrides menu
>
> My team has an ISPF command table, which includes a command that we want
> to work across all of ISPF. It is in the ISPF 3.9 command table search as a
> "user table".
>
> The site has an ISPF menu that displays a panel; it is simulating a menu
> but is actually a DISPLAY.
>
> The problem is that there's an item on this menu that is the same as my
> command. So, when a user attempts to select this option, it run my command
> instead.
>
> I can't create an application table to do a pass through for this menu,
> because the site has it running in the ISR applid id.
>
> Am I missing something? I'm thinking there's no way to get this to work
> without...
>
> - Site changes their panel, or
> - Site moves their menu to a different applid, or
> - I override their panel so I can attach a keylist to it, or
> - I change my command
>
>
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