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Sreejith

All,
I am trying to create a rexx/clist which will print the dataset I am browsing. Is there a way to capture the name of the dataset I am browsing ?

Thanks
Sreejith

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 6:50 am Post subject:

with an edit macro? no.

but, you could pass the name of the dataset to a rexx script, executed by 'tso myrexx dsn' and then force a print.

but, why go to this trouble when printing a dataset is so easily done from almost any 3.n screen?
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Sreejith · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:20 am Post subject:

Thanks Dick. We have an application here which will show a form in browse and user want to print this. The application deletes the file when we quit browse. So I was going to give them a rexx/clist which will print (not a straight forward print, need to add some extra bits here and there) it. I don't have access to the source code of the application.
For the time being I have to tell them to note the dataset name and enter it manually.

semigeezer · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

you can use the same technique as vcursor (ZCREENI, forget about ZSCREENC). You may want to put your command in the ispf command table so users don't have to explicitly type it in as a TSO command. Just have sufficient error checking to be sure they are in browse.
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Sreejith · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:09 am Post subject:

semigeezer,
Thanks for the reply. I will give it a try.

Thanks
sreejith

expat · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:55 am Post subject:

Have you tried something like ......

Sreejith · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 4:12 am Post subject:

expat,
Yes. I did try that. but it only works in EDIT or VIEW mode and I am looking for something which will work in BROWSE mode.

Thanks
Sreejith

jim haire · Beginner Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Topics: 40

Did you find something that would work for you? This logic will work if you type
"TSO command" on the command line.

It finds the word "BROWSE" on the screen and returns the next word on the screen, which should be the dataset being browsed.

semigeezer · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

Rather than depend on screen scraping, you might want to just use a customized browse panel that stores the variable value somewhere, either in the profile pool (under a different name) or in a temporary data set (via a Rexx panel exit)

Screen scraping can easily fail. The above example would fail with PANELID on, for example.
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