Productivity Tools for the ISPF User and Developer

Project and Program: MVS, MVS Core Technologies

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE Columbus 2022

Over the past few decades, the speaker has developed a wealth of tools that he was allowed to share with the mainframe community thanks to his enlightened management. In this session the speaker will present some of these tools that enhance the ISPF users' productivity. This will be a high-level presentation on each of the tools. Among the tools to be presented are: CBTView - a quick/easy ISPF dialog to access the CBTTAPE files from your z/OS ISPF system. FTPBATCH - an ISPF dialog that simplifies using FTP between z/OS systems, and between z/OS and distributed systems. Including the ability to synchronize partitioned datasets between two z/OS systems, selectively transfer PDS members, selectively transfer one, or more, datasets. ISPF and Batch are supported. PDSEGEN - a full featured ISPF application that exploits PDSE version 2 member generations. Easily access generations, including comparing a generation to a non-generation (or generation 0) member. Over 20 primary commands and 16-member specific commands. OMVSMAN - ISPF dialog for access to OMVS man pages. SPELLC - ISPF Edit spell checker (to catch those nasty finger checks when typing). TSOHELP - ISPF dialog for improved access to TSO Help members. XMITIP - a full z/OS ISPF, and batch, e-mail application for generating and sending e-mail, with attachments, via SMTP. ZIGI - z/OS ISPF Git Interface. ZSTART - a simple ISPF application to help configure, and manage, the ISPF ZSTART variable. ZSYNC - a simple ISPF dialog to compare, and synchronize two partitioned datasets.

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