I wholeheartedly concur with Elardus on the specification and usage of command table entries (3.9).
I use SITE table 1 in 3.9 and currently have 137 entries in it. The majority of entries are invoked using two characters. When done, PF3 returns you to the location where you invoked the command table entry. I rarely type a "= JUMP" command. You want SMPE, type SMP or SMPE, you want RACF, type RAC or RACF. SYSLOG? Type SL. Operlog? Type OL. ISRDDN? Type DDN. I also use &ZPARM where appropriate and have added SCRNAME to most entries. Very useful when using SWAPBAR. Most commonly used by me? SMPE, DDN, SDH (SDSF H), SDD (SDSF DA), ISH (ISHELL), UL (ULOG) and the previously mentioned SL and OL I also have entries to invoke most ISV product dialogs, but I won't specify any of them here. :-) Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why doesn't "="option work in SMP/E panels? Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >That is the only technically correct answer. For that reason I have macro >button in my terminal emulator that does: =x;=x;=x;=x;=x;=x;=x;=x; to get back >home from wherever you are. About SMP/E Primary Option Menu which is coded with "&ZPRIM = YES", it is indeed the correct answer. PF2 + PF9 to split and swap is also a good alternative method. As others also said, ISMF and IPCS also do that. Because of that, I have added several 'shortcut commands' in option =3.9 'application command table'. There you can go to another application on top of SMP/E, ISMF, SDSF, Bookmanager, RACF, whatever. Then you go recursively back to your previous application. For example, someone in a storage group sees a message in SDSF, he then goes to ISMF (that's the command ISMF!), works on ISMF, then exit ISMF back to SDSF. After that he can works on SDSF. Of course, that eats memory, but memory is cheap-cheap! ;-) >Further, we have a lot of handy commands to go directly to useful functions. >From any panel I can enter: DSL to invoke the DSLIST panel directly. Also using =3.9 in TSO? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht "I get no respect from my wife, I once fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it." (Rodney Dangerfield) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
