On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:50:54 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

>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.
>
I have a little Rexx EXEC that does (mostly) "address SYSCALL chdir arg(1)"
If I run it from the TSO command line it does a persistent cd (at least for
most purposes).  So if I chdir /u/userid(), then in ISPF 3.17 I make my initial
directory "." and it opens with a display of my home directory.

-- gil

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