ISPF EDIT COMPARE question - How to specify and use a SYSIN file?

[Farley, Peter x23353]

I have never been able to figure this out, so I am asking here (with a CC to ISPF-L).

When I am editing a COBOL source member in ISPF EDIT and I enter the bare COMPARE command without any argument, I get this pop-up menu:

Edit Compare Settings and Command Parameters
Command ===>

SuperC Options: Display options:
Enter "/" to select option Lines displayed
/ Case Insensitive Compare with EXCLUDE . . . 5 (0 - 12)
/ Ignore Reformat Differences Label Prefix . . . O (A - Y)
Data Contains DBCS Characters
Use a label of the form .Oxxxx to
change the highlighting of a line
to mark it as only existing in
the current file.

Compare Command Parameters:
Name . . . . . +
Volume . . . .
Enter "/" to select option Enter "/" to select option
Exclude Save
SYSIN Set SYSIN data set

Enter END to save changes. If NAME is set, Compare will run

I did figure out that the "Name" field is to specify the file to compare against, but how and where do I specify compare parameters (like "CMPCOLM 007:072" for instance)?

I have tried entering a "/" on the "SYSIN" and on the "Set SYSIN data set" options but neither one lets me specify or create a SYSIN file for the compare containing the options I want to use.

Any help or RTFM you can provide is appreciated.

Current z/OS level is 2.3 if that makes a difference.

Peter

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[Williams, Charles H]

Peter,

I normally use COMPARE in an edit macro so I don't normally specify parameters. Just playing around with it, if I select "/ Set SYSIN data set ", and enter an END command I get the following where I can specify a dataset that contains compare parameters.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Edit Compare - SYSIN data set Specification
Command ===>

Data set 'my.userid.SUPERC.STMTS'
member . .

Enter / to edit

Maybe entering the END command is key. I pressed ENTER several times and was wondering why a second panel wasn't coming up to specify my SYSIN file.

Thanks,

Charles
State of Missouri

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[Farley, Peter x23353]

Thanks Charles, but when I put "/" on that field and then use the END command, it immediately goes to the compare process and I never get that pop-up for the SYSIN data set.

This could be a relic of a prior MVS/ISPF administration team where we have some "custom" ISP* libraries ahead of the standard IBM ones. I will have to test with a vanilla logon (with no extra ISP* libraries) and see if the behavior is different then.

Appreciate the help.

Peter

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[Paul Gilmartin]

On May 3, 2022, at 13:47:54, 'Farley, Peter x23353' wrote:
>
> Thanks Charles, but when I put "/" on that field and then use the END command, it immediately goes to the compare process and I never get that pop-up for the SYSIN data set.
>
> This could be a relic of a prior MVS/ISPF administration team where we have some "custom" ISP* libraries

> ...
Indeed. Even as one of my frequent bad habits is to customize PF3.
(Personal use only; I'm not an admin.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Williams, Charles H'
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 3:36 PM
>

> I normally use COMPARE in an edit macro so I don't normally specify parameters. Just playing around with it, if I select "/ Set SYSIN data set ", and enter an END command I get the following where I can specify a dataset that contains compare parameters.
>

I've used ISRSUPC in batch more than via panels. A major shortcoming of
TSO/CMS Rexx its lack of instream data or the ANSI "ADDRESS WITH redirection".
Should be an RFE for ANSI support.

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[darylf...@yahoo.com]

As I remember, using the slash indicates quotes or to break out the character entered.

Daryl Wells
darylf...@yahoo.com

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[Farley, Peter x23353]

Sorry, not for those fields - Both the "Set SYSIN data set" and "SYSIN" fields are one-byte "selection" fields (it says right above them "Enter "/" to select option").

Peter

[Daryl Wells]

Sorry. I missed the part that this was the selection slash on a panel.