Description of FILELIST
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From Kris Buelens, IBM
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This package includes enhancements to EXECUTE, FILELIST and RDRLIST
(EXECUTE is the macro that processes the commands you enter in
FILELIST, RDRLIST, DIRLIST, etc)
Corrections for 2.1
Corrections for 2.2
Corrections for 2.3
Corrections for 2.3.A
Modifications in 2.4 and 2.4.1(z/VM support)
>Hiper bug fix in 2.4.2: /S and /U in RDRLIST
Modifications in 2.4.3 (z/VM 4.4 support)
Modifications in 2.4.4 (z/VM 5.2 support)
Modifications in 2.4.5 (z/VM 5.3 support)
Modifications in 2.4.6 (RDRLIST Rename)
Modifications in 2.4.7 (z/VM 5.4 support)
Modifications in 2.4.8 (addition of X2N)
Modifications in 2.4.9 (Change Release check)
Enhancements to EXECUTE
Some CMS commands are intercepted and repeating commands is
improved. Many of the enhancements are valid in more than just
FILELIST or RDRLIST, but also in DIRLIST, CSLLIST, etc)
- The following commands are intercepted:
- Rename
- RENAME and keep new name in FILELIST (avoid the message ***
discarded or renamed ***).: We also allow you to use "RENAME"
in RDRLIST (we xlate the command in a CP CHANGE RDR / NAME ..)
- FName
- Changes the FILENAME of the file
- FType
- Changes the FILETYPE of the file
- FMode
- Changes the FILEMODE NUMBER of the file
- CPYfile
- COPYFILE and place new file(s) in FILELIST
- XEDIT
- becomes PEEK if called for RDR file
- PEEK
- becomes XEDIT if called for a CMS file
- XEDIT2 or X2
- add indicated file to XEDITs RING, allows to edit
many files from FILELIST in one shot. Look also at the RING
tool (RING is part of the LISTSG package).
- X2N or X2
- add indicated filez to a new XEDIT RING, allows to edit
many files from FILELIST in one shot. Look also at the RING
tool (RING is part of the LISTSG package).
- ERASe
- ERASE with message in FILELIST.
: DISCARD with message in RDRLIST
- KILL
- same as ERASE (see above)
- PURge
- in RDRLIST executes CP PURGE command
- CPC
- execute CP command and return answer in the RDRLIST or FILELIST area
- DOREXX
- the command you enter will be 'INTERPRETED" by REXX.
- Partial support for MIXED case fileid's: We also added an
option to the RENAME command to rename an uppercse fileid to mixed case.
- Additional or modified special commands:
- Added ??, ???, == and === commands
: The FILELIST Retrieve function (the ? special command) is
extended to remember up to 3 commands.
- No need to overtype returncodes for ? and other special commands
: i.e. ?28 is understood as ?
This problem has been solved in the official
z/VM version of EXECUTE
- You can now enter / symbols in CMS commands by typing // Example:
: FIXDATE / 92//04//22 will become FIXDATE fn ft fm 92/04/22
- Additional / symbols for RDRLIST: /S for SYSTEM and
/U for USERID
Enhancements to PROFFLST
The major enhancements are
- Inclusion of Q DISK or Q LIMITS information; refreshed each time
one presses ENTER.
- PF-key 14 refreshes one file (or more files if the fileid contains
wildcards).
Enhancements to PROFRLST
The major enhancement is PF-key 14 that allows to refresh one file.
It allows for example to:
- press PF9 to receive a file on your A-disk
- press PF14 to find the file (looks in your RDR and on disk)
- press PF11 to XEDIT the file just received
The corrections in the 2.1 level are the following:
- When you issued RENAME /ntd ..., the enhanced version
of EXECUTE did not recognized this as a RENAME of the given file, so
you got EXECUTE's standard behaviour and a
'** Discarded, Renamed...' message. This is now corrected.
- When running with ISODATE or FULLDATE, the messages
generated by ERASE, PURGE, ... where not aligned nicely.
- When you where FILELISTing an SFS directory and pressed PF11 on
a subdirectory, XEDIT was called instead of FILELIST of the subdir.
The corrections in the 2.1.b level:
avoid a loop when PROFFL+n XEDIT not found.
The corrections in the 2.2 level are the following:
- Avoid problems with the ERASE / (FILES command.
- Avoid a "Synonym definition incomplete" error message.
- Rework previous updates (2.1 and 2.1.b) as separate source
update files (so that EXECUPDT can handle those)
- We have seen that our version of FILELIST and EXECUTE works in
CMS 14 (VM/ESA 2.3.0) too. So the tests in EXECUTE XEDIT,
PROFFLST XEDIT and PROFRLST XEDIT are updated accordingly.
We finally installed VM/ESA 2.4.0 and adapted the improved FILELIST
- Use the EXECUTE and PROFFLST of VM/ESA 2.4.0 as a base
for our modifs. The version is used in CMS14 and CMS15.
- Make FILELIST lines imbedded in RDRLIST work better (the fn/ft
remains aligned and there's no need anymore to ERASE-End-Of-Field
for commands entered on FILELIST lines in RDRLIST).
(you get FILELIST lines in a RDRLIST by using PF14 in RDRLIST)
- In FILELIST, PF2 "Refresh" performs a re-ACCESS if the cursor
is placed on line 2 (the one with the Q DISK info).
- Avoid truncation of the command behind PF2 when the FILELIST
is refreshed more than 40 times
- The EXECLD exec now loads a "good" HELPXED file, corresponding to
your CMS level.
The modifications are now based on the level of z/VM V3R1.
The result of this new level is that you also get the small improvmenets
for FILELIST and RDRLIST incorporated in z/VM.
- When running on CMS Level 16 or higher:
-
- No more problems when using my improved EXECUTE with
RDRLIST (SHORTDATE
- In RDRLIST (SHORTDATE, leading zeros are suppressed in
the date field.
- In FILELIST and RDRLIST,
leading zeros are suppressed in the time field.
- For all users of CMS Level 14 and higher:
- Improved handling of the ? and = commands.
- Slash symbol substutition is not attempted for ? and = commands.
- Command input like ? xxxx is now recognized as ?.
Correction for 2.4.1
When using the PURge command in RDRLIST, the fname and
ftype of the purged file was sometimes written as FN FT or even
blanked out.
Our EXECUTE version enhances RDRLIST in that
you can use extra symbols /U and /S
to denote the sender's userid and nodeid. For example: if your
reader contains a PROFILE EXEC of many service machines, you can
easily receive them by entering:
RECEIVE / /u PROFILE on the first file
= on all other files
Since we started using the z/VM version of EXECUTE for our
modifications, the /U and /S symbols were not correctly handled
when they were used inside commands re-executed by the "=" command.
Now that I've got a z/VM 4.4, I was able to compare my version the
new standard version. My version is now again a superset of z/VM
4.4, and the only change is that commands started by typing
EXECUTE x xxxx in the command line are no longer uppercased
by the EXECUTE macro.
The only visible difference are the leading 0 that gets displayed in
RDRLIST since z/VM 5.1 when using ISODATE.
No real changes were required, we had to adapt our CMS level check
and accept CMS 23 as OK.
When sending files from MVS to VM, RDRLIST displays them as
"sender OUTPUT". In the past the improved FILELIST provided a RENAME
(without operands) to change the spool fname and ftype to the first two
qualifiers of the MVS datasetname.
The new RENAME command in RDRLIST provides two new features
Rename ? will display the full MVS datasetname
Rename / &n &m changes the spoolfname and ftype to
the 'n'th and m'th qualifier.
More information in EXECUTE HELPXEDI
No real changes were required, we had to adapt our CMS level check
and accept CMS 24 as OK.
SETSYN was not explicitely included in this package but called.
Additon of an X2N EXEC. With X2N all selected files are placed in
a new XEDIT ring. That is, FILELIST itself is not in that XEDIT ring,
only the selected files are.
If you want to test it: be sure the enter X2N on more than a single
file (else "X2N" behaves just like an "XEDIT" command). Then issue
Q RING, or better, get the RING tool from LISTSG and enter RING.
With each new z/VM release, these FILELIST modifs gave you a warning
that these changes were not tested on the new z/VM level.
Given that FILELIST and co do not frequently change anymore, the
level check has been changed. On z/VM levels for which I didn't check
the compatibility of my changes, I compare the copyright comments inside
the SXEDIT versions on the S-disk. As long as they don't change, I will
not send out compatiblity warnings anymore.
Define z/VM 6.2 as "ok", and PROFRLST checks as PROFFLST explained
above.
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