Actually, you can save things with CREATE and CUT. I switched to VIEW a long time ago and never looked back.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jerry Whitteridge <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2025 1:17 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL Email: How avoid ISREDIT MACRO error in nested EDIT macro? External Message: Use Caution Charles - instead of using BROWSE use VIEW. Gives you all the functions of EDIT without being able to save the data changes Jerry Whitteridge Sr Manager Managed Services Tech Operations & Innovation [email protected] 480 578 7889 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2025 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL Email: How avoid ISREDIT MACRO error in nested EDIT macro? I have relatively little ISPF development experience. I have written a largely-successful EDIT macro. It opens a BROWSE window, so it is not impossible for a user to invoke the macro from within the BROWSE session.(It's illogical to do so -- it's not a "supported usage" -- but you know how users are!) The EDIT macro contains Address ISREDIT "MACRO" . If the macro is invoked from within the macro-initiated BROWSE I get an error on the above statement, which is kind of ugly. MACRO command is invalid The MACRO command must be specified only once in a macro. Error message ID . : ISRE749 Last return code . : 12 How do I avoid that? IOW, how from within the EDIT macro can I determine that ISREDIT "MACRO" would be superfluous or illegal? Or how do does the EDIT macro determine that it has been reentered? I can't do any EDIT MACRO commands because the MACRO environment *may* not have been started. Kind of a chicken and egg situation. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
