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pcmoonbeam

I used to work in an IBM MVS/ESA shop where the system's programmer had set up a command called 'STACK'. What it enabled us to do was litterally stack one ISPF screen on top of another, so that while you were editing a member, you could issue the 'stack' command, be taken to an ISPF Primary Menu screen, and go look up contents of a file or whatever. Then when you finished, you could return to where you had been by pressing PF4 to cancel the screen. Does anyone know how this is done? I think he used either REXX or CLIST but I'm not sure.
Thanks. Confused

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Bill Dennis · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

We did it by setting up a SITE command table to concatenate with the ISPF product command table. Our command is "RE [opt]" for recursive ISPF. To return, press <END> until you're back. Our table looks like:

pcmoonbeam · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks Bill, I'll run this past our systems programmer.
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taltyman · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

Did you try 'start'?

warp5 · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:54 am Post subject:

You can have up to 8 screens (default) open at one time, you toggle between two of them - see the SWAP command and as taltyman said take a look at the START command. When you are editing a member you can also enter EDIT member or VIEW member as a command (or just EDIT to get prompts). Take a look at the ISPF tutorials too.

sriramla · Beginner Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 74 Topics: 1

I don't know whether HOLD command is from ISPF or not. But this command can be used to stack multiple ISPF screens. START command is used to get another new screen altogether (with a max. of 8 screens by default unless installation default is different). SWAP, LIST etc are the commands that go with START to switch between multiple screens.