HOW TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT CURSOR POSITION

[baskarans]

Hi

I want to change the default cursor position and default values of some ISPF
panels for me alone. Could someone mail me on how to effect those
changes.

Thanks in Advance
Baskar

[Frank Clarke]

On 13 May 1999 21:28:56 -0700, bask...@INF.COM (baskarans) wrote:

>I want to change the default cursor position and default values of some ISPF
>panels for me alone.

You will want a PO dataset of the same DCB as your current ISPPLIB.
This dataset must be concatenated ahead of the current ISPPLIB
datasets.

Into this dataset, copy the panel which you wish to customize. Make
the changes you need/want.

If you started ISPF with the TEST option, the panel will be available
immediately after the fix; otherwise, you will need to exit ISPF and
restart it in order to see the change.

This is a very dangerous procedure for novices. You could easily wind
up with a configuration which prevents you even using ISPF, so
correcting any errors could be very costly in terms of time. Let's
all be careful out there ;-)

Frank Clarke
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[Jim Harrison]

That's the fun part! I once came across a user/programmer who had put
their clist library at the top of their ISPPLIB concatenation (I guess they
were too lazy to create a seperate panel library). That made for some
interesting displays when a clist name happened to match a panel name! <g>

[Neil Hancock]

In the raw panel code ( SYS1.SISPPENU) you can use .CURSOR = fieldname in
the INIT section.

As most panels are DTL sourced now, you may need to update the DTL. Use the
CURSOR attribute of the PANEL tag ( <PANEL CURSOR=fieldname > ).
Often, IBM supplied DTL has raw panel code in <SOURCE> elements. There may
be a .CURSOR in the INIT section. See my attachments for an example of a
different ISPF 3.4 panel and how to compile them with ISPDTLC.

If you have control of the calling EXEC, you can control the cursor when you
use ISPEXEC TBDISP and DISPLAY.

To stop the rest of the world getting these panels, FREE your ISPPLIB
concatenation and ALLOC a new one with your panel library in front when you
logon. Use TSO LISTA ST HI to see your current allocation.

N.

-----Original Message-----
From: baskarans <bask...@INF.COM>
To: TSO-...@VM.MARIST.EDU <TSO-...@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Date: 14 May 1999 05:26
Subject: HOW TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT CURSOR POSITION

>Hi

>
>I want to change the default cursor position and default values of some
ISPF

[Frank Clarke]

On 14 May 1999 11:15:11 -0700, NHan...@UBERFISH.FREESERVE.CO.UK (Neil
Hancock) wrote:

>To stop the rest of the world getting these panels, FREE your ISPPLIB
>concatenation and ALLOC a new one

Or do it in one step:
"ALLOC FI(ISPPLIB) DA(...) SHR REUSE"

'REUSE' says, in effect, "I don't care whether this DD is already
allocated or not; just do it and don't ask any stupid questions." MVS
systems need to be handled sternly.

I have a pretty-neato session customizer (called ATTACH) which I will
provide ZIPped via e-mail to anyone who asks.

[Doug Nadel]

On 14 May 1999 11:15:11 -0700, NHan...@UBERFISH.FREESERVE.CO.UK (Neil
Hancock) wrote:

>
>To stop the rest of the world getting these panels, FREE your ISPPLIB
>concatenation and ALLOC a new one with your panel library in front when you
>logon. Use TSO LISTA ST HI to see your current allocation.

OK. I'll pick on that too :-) An easier way to create the clist is
to, within ISPF, type
TSO ISRDDN
O ISPPLIB
CLIST

Then you just change the CLIST it creates for you.
-Doug

[Frank Clarke]

On Sat, 15 May 1999 22:39:19 GMT, some...@mindspring.com (Doug Nadel)
wrote:

>OK. I'll pick on that too :-) An easier way to create the clist is
>to, within ISPF, type
>TSO ISRDDN
>O ISPPLIB
>CLIST

CLIST? CLIST??? Oh, Doug, I'm -so- disappointed!

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