Mainframe Tricks

1.How to retrieve last 25 command line commands that are issued from ISPF panal Type RETP from command line commands that you have issued then You will see last 25

2.Suppose you are editing a program/copybook/ or file and You want to know the changes you have done since last Save command Give Compare session at command line 3.How to create GDG base with out writing a IDCAMS job. Place the cursor at GDG version in Proc/Jcl and issue ZGDG at command lime this will generate a jcl for you and it will ask whether you want to edit it or submit 4. Generally a PDS member or PS bears ID of the creator or ID of the person who modified it recently. Can I change these ID values ??? Give G at line command area then it screen where you can change tso id etc values. will pop up a

5. How to Expand Copybooks and Includes for cobol programs Open Cobol program in Edit mode then Issue ZXP from Command line 6. How to retrieve the TSO region information from ISPF Screen Issue the SAREA command from command line

7. Im in the middle of analysis of a cobol program and I want to see the declaration of a particular variable with out disturbing my ispf edit panal Place the cursor at variable and issue ZLOC at command line then it will Give the declaration of the variable 10.How can I Wrap the record of a mainframe dataset in ispf panal like in MS word.In other words How to see the full record(when length more than 80) with oput pressing F11 in Edit/view mode After opening the dataset issue line command TF80 (80 chars per line) 11.Why packed decimal field is always declared with ODD number of digits processing time for odd numbers is 10 to 20% more faster then using an even number of digits 12. Rearranging columns in SDSF. Generally in SDSF to see the return code of a job we need to press f11 couple of times. How can I rearrange these sdsf fields so that I could see return code next to the job name issue ARR ? from command line in SDSF, the order as per rqmnt then select

13. How can I get the number of records in a PS or PDS member with out opening it Issue Line command ZCNT 14. For selecting jobs in the SDSF queue , We either use "?" or "S".When We use "?" , We get the break-up output groups. When We use "S" , the entire

job is selected without the above break-ups. Is there any command to view each output group when I use "S" to select the job? After opening the job using "S", use "N" (next) or "P"(Previous) to navigate between different output groups. 15. I have opened a File in File-ID in Browse mode but later wished it was EDIT in this situation, what we do generally is we come out of the browse mode and again open in edit mode. Can I change Browse to edit or Vice Versa with out coming out Issue: GO EDIT GO BROWSE <to go in edit mode> <to go in browse mode> that you have worked on?

16. How to find last 30 datasets

Go to 3.4 then select REFLIST( next to the MENU option on top) Then select option 1 in that then it will display last 30 dataset (ps/pds member) accessed by your TSO id 17.How to compare the changes that you made since last save command with out coming out from the screen Issue COM * X at command line 18.JCL analysis Macro: This will give you two reports for each Jcl 1. Jcl->Proc->Pgm->Dataset 2. Jcl->Proc->Step How to use: Issue TSO ZJCL from any command line this will pop up a screen where You enter the JCL for which you want to see above reports Note: This JCl should available in Production libs 19. Dataset Macro ZMAC.

You can use this macro when you are analyzing any proc/jcl Use this macro to know whether dataset is existing or not/rec type/ rec length/for recalling etc How to use: Open Jcl/proc in view/edit mode place the cursor on dd statement and issue ZMAC on command line then enter it will pop up a message and you can select any option as per your requirement 20. How can I execute a sql which there in my cobol/ezt program or spufi member with out going to DB2I or spufi or qmf (basically I dont want to open another screen) First you exclude all other statements and keep only sql statements In your ps/pds memmber, if you want execute multiple sql separate them with ; then issue zql from command line 21 How can I see any table description with out going to DB2I Issue TSO ZDESC <qualifier>.<tablename> 22 How can I see any indexes defined on a table with out going to DB2I Issue TSO Zindx <qualifier>.<tablename>