I use this feature. The main problem I have with it (which you eluded to when you said "Caveat, you need to use full Unix path for the filenames" is that each time you enter a Unix command it seems to spawn a new Unix shell, which closes as soon as your command is executed. Thus you can't do a change directory (cd) and expect to be in the new directory when you execute the next command. (Unless you do it as a "single" command, i.e. "cd newdir && ls). I've pondered an RFE for this to be addressed somehow, but I wasn't sure if anyone even used this. Plus, who knows how difficult it would be for IBM to implement. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Conley <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell
On 3/16/2018 11:57 AM, John McKown wrote: > Yes, it has some nice facilities. But I cannot _easily_ invoke UNIX > commands from it, doing "UNIXy" things. And don't get me started on the > TSO OMVS command (which I despise mainly due to the limitations of TSO > 3270). > > Basically what I would like is to "invert" the "normal" process that I've > seen - that being when when someone uses the TSO OMVS command under ISPF to > do UNIX commands while staying in TSO. What I really want is to invoke ISPF > from a UNIX prompt, replacing the 3270 terminal interface with either a > "curses" (aka termcap) or a X11 terminal interface. Being able to do TSO > commands under UNIX ISPF would also be nice. REXX under UNIX has a nice > facility where it starts up a TSO address space when an ADDRESS TSO is > first used in a REXX program; said TSO address space continues until > explicitly shut down via a LOGOFF command or implicitly when the REXX > program ends. > > Go to 3.17, Options, Directory List options, and put a slash in front of execute UNIX commnands from command line. You now have a Unix shell. enter "/" on the command line to get a command entry panel like ISPF option 6 or SDSF. Caveat, you need to use full Unix path for the filenames. Regards, Tom Conley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
