> I am frustrated with commands generating data that fills multiple screens > and not have the ability to scroll back and forth in the results > Thus I thought I'd try something with PIPEs and came up with this: > [snip] > This seemed like it would work but the file is empty when xedit opens it.
Try SET FULLSCREEN ON at the CMS command line. Not all commands use the right I/O stuff to be pipe-friendly (particularly stuff brought over from MVS like RACF). I don't care for fullscreen CMS much, but others like it.