Overview Adding a calendar display field to a ISPF panel without a built-in function on your MVS 3.8J hobbyist system is a simple implementation using the AREA tag to define a dynamic area in ISPF 2.x! It is assumed the reader has basic working knowledge of TSO CLISTs and ISPF services. Let’s walk through a simple design brainstorm of a…
Category: MVS38J
WRLDWTCH in MVS38J
Overview WRLDWTCH – World WATCH for MVS38J / Hercules(current version 0.9.00 2018-09-22) ** WRLDWTCH and ISPF Limitation ** Due to a DISPLAY element limitation in ISPF v2.2 when using a model 2 (24×80) terminal session, the display will fail and not display correctly. Other 3270 terminal modes display correctly.Due to the fixed display content of WRLDWTCH, no temporarily correction is…
Submitting JCL to MVS 3.8J
Preface (updated 2020-01-22) JCL (Job Control Language) decks are used to submit JOBs via a reader device or an online edit session for batch processing on the public domain OS, MVS 3.8J (MVS will be used to mean MVS 3.8J in this post). As a MVS 3.8J hobbyist / enthusiast, the previous statement is elementary and unequivocal. The purpose of…
Using ISPF Table Services in MVS 3.8J
Overview ISPF tables store organized data in virtual storage for temporary residency or DASD for permanent residency as a PDS member in the ISPTABL library. Table services are categorized as 1) table level – action impacting a table, 2) table row level – action impacting a table row, and 3) display level – impacting display of table rows. ISPF tables…
myHelpNotes in MVS38J
Overview The purpose of this post is to hold those reference items seldom used but requiring a “cheat sheet” to prevent topic lookup in various manuals or use of google! Carriage Control Character ASA Character Printer Action blank Advance 1 line before printing (single space) 1 Advance to next page before print (form feed) 0 Advance 2 lines before printing…