ISPF, MVS38J

ISPF in MVS38J

Developer Productivity Developing computing systems require tools such as editors, compilers, data and test environments before distributing a beta and/or production product. On my MVS 38J system, I use two user-written editing facilities, RPF (Rob’s Programming Facility by Rob Prince) and RFE (Review Front End by Greg Price), which run under TSO. Both facilities are installed in the TK3 and…

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ISPF 2.x, MVS38J, TSO

Calendar on ISPF Panel w MVS 3.8J – Part II

Overview In the previous post, the December 2018 calendar is displayed using one color, green, including an asterisk to indicate today’s date.  As a hobbyist, you always want to spruce up displays – apply new features of a tool, ISPF. ___DECEMBER 2018____ S M T W T F S . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5…

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ISPF 2.x, MVS38J, TSO

Calendar on ISPF Panel w MVS 3.8J

Overview Adding a calendar display field to a ISPF panel without a built-in function on your MVS 3.8J hobbyist system is a simple implementation using the AREA tag to define a dynamic area in ISPF 2.x!  It is assumed the reader has basic working knowledge of TSO CLISTs and ISPF services. Let’s walk through a simple design brainstorm of a…

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ISPF 2.x, MVS38J

WRLDWTCH in MVS38J

Overview WRLDWTCH – World WATCH for MVS38J / Hercules(current version 0.9.00  2018-09-22) ** WRLDWTCH and ISPF Limitation ** Due to a DISPLAY element limitation in ISPF v2.2 when using a model 2 (24×80) terminal session, the display will fail and not display correctly. Other 3270 terminal modes display correctly.Due to the fixed display content of WRLDWTCH, no temporarily correction is…

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Hercules, JCL, MVS38J, Utility

Submitting JCL to MVS 3.8J

Preface (updated  2020-01-22) JCL (Job Control Language) decks are used to submit JOBs via a reader device or an online edit session for batch processing on the public domain OS, MVS 3.8J (MVS will be used to mean MVS 3.8J in this post). As a MVS 3.8J hobbyist / enthusiast, the previous statement is elementary and unequivocal. The purpose of…

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ISPF, ISPF 2.x, MVS38J, Uncategorized

Using ISPF Table Services in MVS 3.8J

Overview ISPF tables store organized data in virtual storage for temporary residency or DASD for permanent residency as a PDS member in the ISPTABL library. Table services are categorized as 1) table level – action impacting a table, 2) table row level – action impacting a table row, and 3) display level – impacting display of table rows. ISPF tables…

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