It's all working. This will be my last post unless something dramatic comes up. We're going over the same ground again and again.
On Sun, 7 Sep 2025 12:13:30 -0500, Hobart Spitz <[email protected]> wrote: >If you are in browse, you cannot issue edit macro commands. > >That's what the MACRO failure is telling you. Where did you get the idea >that you could? Did you display isrlmsg? You know that and I know that but the darned users -- they do what they do. And if what they do is issue the command from a BROWSE session I get the error. My whole reason for this thread was trying to issue a nice message rather than blowing up ugly, and thanks to the help here, I am achieving that. >Try view. That is why it's there, to let you execute a non-updating edit >macros without creating an enqueue on the dataset/member. I use View in one situation. I use BROWSE in this situation. It's a private, temporary data set so ENQ is irrelevant. And changing the data set would make no sense in any event. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
