Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity Thompson
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santlou

Hi,
I maintain many REXX Execs that streamline development tasks. We are in a Mainframe z/os COBOL environment. One tool that I developed is an ISPF Edit Macro that allows the developer to 'BookMark' several locations in a source component to allow him to quickly access the BookMarked location later. The Edit Macro simply stores the Datasetset Name, Member Name, and current ISPF EDIT LineNumber in an ISPF Table for later use.
The use of an ISPF Table allows the BookMarks to be persisted over future ISPF sessions. This tool is very helpful when deveoping a Large Cobol Source and is widely used in our development community. However, using Changeman to edit source code poses a bottleneck when bookmarking.
When a component is selected for Edit in Changeman, a dynamic Temporary dataset name is created for the edit session. Thus whenever the bookmark feature is used, it cannot be persisted because the Changeman Edit dataset name is never the same.
I'm able to obtain the Changeman Package Name from the PKGNAME ISPF Variable in the CMNP ISPF variable pool. But I cannot find any variables that may contain the Source Component Name and Type. In order to persist the BookMark from one session to the next, I need to obtain the Component Name and Component Type, or the Changeman Source Dataset and Member Name of the currently Editted Component.
Where can I access this information from with my Edit Macro to identify the Source Component to enable persisting the BookMarked locations?
any suggestions would be appreciated....

Posted 10/7/2007 10:24 AM

jokkespeed

Actually it is quit easy :
1. Modify exit CMNEXINS to have the component name at the end of the dataset
2. Modify the panel CMNSTG01 to todo a vput of the library type (store it first into another non-CMN variable) and vget it from your edit macro
We do the same but for other reasons
Regards,
Johan
Posted 10/8/2007 12:40 AM




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