For the record, you do not need ISFTABL to be allocated for SDSF to function and, in fact, I run without ISFTABL on many of the systems that I use.
If ISFTABL is not found, SDSF retrieves and stores system commands in the ISPF profile dataset and in this mode the user can store up to 50 commands. ISFTABL is only required if the user wants to store more than 50 commands. The reason that SDSF does this is that there is an internal limit to the max size of a ISPF profile member (64K-ish), and SDSF would very quickly exceed that size if hundreds of z/OS system commands were stored using standard VPUT processing. For this reason, it was chosen that we would store the system commands in an ISPF table instead. From what I can tell, this new feature was documented, but not in the migration section as maybe it was deemed an enhancement and not a change to existing behaviour. Rob Scott Rocket Software ================================ Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ■ 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham MA 02451 ■ Main Office Toll Free Number: +1 855.577.4323 Contact Customer Support: https://my.rocketsoftware.com/RocketCommunity/RCEmailSupport Unsubscribe from Marketing Messages/Manage Your Subscription Preferences - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/manage-your-email-preferences Privacy Policy - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/company/legal/privacy-policy ================================ This communication and any attachments may contain confidential information of Rocket Software, Inc. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Rocket Software immediately and destroy all copies of this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
