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.
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