Overview DVTOC – ISPF VTOC DSN Search Utility for MVS38J / Hercules(current version 1.0.03 2024-01-16) On Windows or Linux, one can easily and conveniently use the DIR or LS CLI command to obtain a list of files and folders resident on your system (i.e. series of online disk drives). On MVS 3.8J (public domain version), if using RPF, option 3.4…
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RECVXMIT in MVS38J
Overview RECVXMIT – RECV and XMIT ISPF Add-on for MVS 3.8J TSO / ISPF / Hercules(current version 0.9.02 2023-10-09) Today, most software distributions and data exchanges between MVS platforms are in XMIT format. The XMIT format uses TSO RECEIVE and TSO TRANSMIT to ‘expand/compress’ datasets using the EBCDIC character set. One prime example of XMIT usage are CBT tapes. More…
DSCOPY in MVS38J
Overview Copying DASD datasets is a common task – whether creating a backup copy of a data set or creating a new data set from an existing data set to change allocations due to data set growth (i.e. PDS directory space). As a programmer in my early years, I remember copying PDS datasets using the following steps under ISPF: Using…
DALCDS in MVS38J
DALCDS – Display TSO Allocations Utility for MVS38J / ISPF v 2.x / Hercules(current version 1.2.02 2024-05-01) Many file allocation listing type CPs can be found on the CBT website or various technical journals. DALCDS displays allocated datasets for the current TSO session on a ISPF panel display. DALCDS is written in assembler (IFOX00) using ISPF 2.1 (product from Wally…
DFSPC in MVS38J
** Temporary FIX Notification ** Due to a TBDISPL element limitation in ISPF v2.2 when using a model 2 (24×80) terminal session, the display will fail and not display correctly. To temporarily correct this issue, add two blank lines to the panel PDFSPC0 in the BODY section as shown (in red) below: Note: This limitation is compensated in version v1r2m00…
GETMSG in MVS38J
GETMSG – Get ISPF Message for MVS38J /ISPF / Hercules(current version 0.9.00 2019-09-11) Overview GETMSG is a simple ISPF utility for use under ISPF 2.x (ISPF-like product from Wally Mclaughlin). Specifically, this utility will fetch an ISPF message from MLIB and return each message component (e.g. short and long message content) in ISPF Shared variables for CLISTs access. This 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…