Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)
Hi Dave, That helps enormously - thanks! Best regards, David Tidy Dow Benelux B.V. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Salt Sent: 12 August 2010 17:01 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF) You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command on any ISPF command line: ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON) You can turn TPS on or off programatically by doing this: address ispexec CONTROL ERRORS RETURN VGET (ZTPS) PROFILE if ztps = Y then do say Tab to point-and-shoot was on; turning it off onoff = OFF end else do say Tab to point-and-shoot was off; turning it on onoff = ON end SELECT PGM(ISPOPT) PARM(PSTAB(onoff)) if rc = 0 then say Tab to point-and-shoot is now onoff else say rc zerrsm zerrlm EXIT Hope that helps, Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:16:55 +0200 From: dt...@dow.com Subject: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF) To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Hi, I was actually hoping to see a response to something more similar to Mark's interpretation. In particular I wanted a programmatic (REXX) way to (re)set the tab to point and shoot fields on the way in to TSO/ISPF. This in particular because MXI turns it on, but of course if you time out, it is left in that state (MXI does clean it up on the way out normally). The variable is ZTPS (values 'N' or 'Y'). I do see that I can just edit the ISPSPROF member to change it, but that does seem inelegant and (I think) would have to be done before invoking ISPF to be properly effective. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)
You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command on any ISPF command line: ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON) You can turn TPS on or off programatically by doing this: address ispexec CONTROL ERRORS RETURN VGET (ZTPS) PROFILE if ztps = Y then do say Tab to point-and-shoot was on; turning it off onoff = OFF end else do say Tab to point-and-shoot was off; turning it on onoff = ON end SELECT PGM(ISPOPT) PARM(PSTAB(onoff)) if rc = 0 then say Tab to point-and-shoot is now onoff else say rc zerrsm zerrlm EXIT Hope that helps, Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:16:55 +0200 From: dt...@dow.com Subject: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF) To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Hi, I was actually hoping to see a response to something more similar to Mark's interpretation. In particular I wanted a programmatic (REXX) way to (re)set the tab to point and shoot fields on the way in to TSO/ISPF. This in particular because MXI turns it on, but of course if you time out, it is left in that state (MXI does clean it up on the way out normally). The variable is ZTPS (values 'N' or 'Y'). I do see that I can just edit the ISPSPROF member to change it, but that does seem inelegant and (I think) would have to be done before invoking ISPF to be properly effective. Best regards, David TidyTel:(31)115-67-1745 IS Technical Management/SAP-MfFax:(31)115-67-1762 Dow Benelux B.V. Mailto:dt...@dow.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 11 August 2010 19:01 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:30:49 -0500, Jochen Roehrig jochen.roeh...@baloise.ch wrote: Hi Robert that's it! Shame on me: I knew the RETP, but I never recognized the 'OPTIONS'... Kind regards Jochen You may have received a quicker answer if the question was more clear. But maybe it was clear to everyone but me. :-) I thought you wanted a way to either a) Change the default via customization table for everyone (which you can't because there is no reset value) b) mass update everyone's ISPF profile because the set a bad default in the customization table and already knew you couldn't do the above. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISPF: How best to change ISPSPROF variables programmatically (was ISPF: How best to change user variable ZRETMINL in ISPSPROF)
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:00:50 -0400, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com wrote: You can manually turn Tab to Point and Shoot on or off by entering this command on any ISPF command line: ISPFVAR PSTAB(ON) (cross posted to IBM-MAIN and ISPF-L) I knew of the ISPFVAR command but always use SETTINGS to change the things I want. I never thought about trying to use ISPFVAR to force a split line on with SWAPBAR. I like swapbar but turning it on disables the always show split line in SETTINGS. However, it looks like ISPFVAR SPLTLINE(ON) does work to keep it on. So now I can have my cake and eat it too. I did mention this behavior on ISPF-L when SWAPBAR showed up in z/OS 1.10, but no one suggested trying ISPFVAR as a workaround. Thanks! Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
