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[misi01]

Does anyone know of a way of "expanding" the command allowed via a PF key.

My problem is the following. I can run the ALTLIB command via option 6 from our main ISPF menu, but as soon as I run the SPLIT command and open a new window, I need to run the ALTLIB command there as well (which is a bit of a hassle). In reality, the ALTLIB library I'm pointing at is only used when editing, so I would like to be able to use a PF key in edit to do the actual ALTLIB command.

What I mean by this is illustrated in the following screen capture. (Actually, could someone tell me how to attach a PNG file since I'm not sure how to do it - I'll "write" the image here instead. Note that there are only TWO trailing blanks)

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

well you could write a rexx script (called myaltcmd) which would do the altlib
and then all you would need in you PF key command would be TSO myaltcmd
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[misi01]

Thanks Dick - that would be one way of solving it.

But out of interest, is there NO way of "expanding" the input field to take more characters than "fit" (I seem to remember there's some way of entering a command on the ISPF command line and using a continuation character. A + ?????)
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Michael

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

never bothered to find out since ispf option 6 gave me so much room to type.
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[kolusu]

misi01,

Try the method shown here

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?p=15592#15592

Kolusu

[misi01]

After all, your link refers to the idea of a string in a change command. That doesn't seem to be relevant here, or am I missing something ?

[kolusu]

misi01,

well I was pointing to the use of asterix (*) as backward reference to the previous command as your earlier post mentions about continuation of a long command.

Kolusu