To transfer commands between EDIT session in mainframe to/from REXX

[imrexx]

Hi
I am doing a REXX tool in Mainframe which takes a backup of a dataset while we EDIT the same dataset as we have facility in MS WORD.

So, in this when i run my tool in background and the user can also do their work Simultaneously. For this i need to accept the commands(Like PF Keys) which we user give in EDIT session and need to transfer those to my tool. When user press PF3 i need to stop transfering those commands and also i need to stop running my tool.

Could anyone suggest a way for this?

Thanks in Advance
Imran

 

[rexxhead]

On the mainframe (as probably everywhere else) nothing is saved until an appropriate action is taken. ISPF Edit, for example, keeps its own backup dataset for the edit session so that a system crash won't burn your entire work-product. When an explicit SAVE is done, the backup dataset is supposed to be purged/restarted.

At any point in an edit session you can CANCEL to undo all changes since the last SAVE.

You can split-screen and grab a copy of the untouched original at any time before a SAVE.

Why are you re-inventing the wheel?


Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[imrexx]

Hi Frank

Thanks for Info. Thats great

I do this for some other reason. In Changeman if we EDIT and if the Changeman is down then we cannot get the work last done.

So, to overcome this i do the automatic save tool which will get all the changes and the info to a Dataset.

Thanks
Imran