Category: SDSF

Which parmlib/proclib library has my member?

I wanted to find which IGDSMS00 member in parmlib was being used.

You can use SDSF (where I use “s” in ispf to get to sdsf)

s;parm

(You can do the same with s;proc)

This lists the parmlib concatenation

COMMAND INPUT ===>                                      CROLL ===> CSR
NP   DSNAME            Seq VolSer BlkSize Extent SMS LRecL DSOrg RecFm 
__   USER.Z31B.PARMLIB   1 B3CFG1    6160      1 NO     80 PO    FB    
__   FEU.Z31B.PARMLIB    2 B3CFG1    6160      1 NO     80 PO    FB    
__   ADCD.Z31B.PARMLIB   3 B3SYS1    6160      1 NO     80 PO    FB    
__   SYS1.PARMLIB        4 B3RES1   27920      1 NO     80 PO    FB

You can use the line command sv or se (for view or edit) on the data set to list the members of the data set.

I then used the edit comand s IGDSMS00 to edit the member directly, or loc IGDSMS to find the first member matching the string.

Search for the member

When you’ve displayed the list of data sets in parmlib you can issue a command like

SRCH CONSOLCP

If the member is found the data set will be displayed in white,if it is not found, it will be displayed in blue.

You can also use

SRCH CONSOL*

and get output like

  Display  Filter  View  Print  Options  Search  Help                                                                   

SDSF DATA SET SEARCH  CONS*     ALL                    LINE 1-4 (4)                                                     
COMMAND INPUT ===>                                            SCROLL ===> CSR                                           
NP   DSNAME            Seq ... SysName  Member
__   USER.Z31B.PARMLIB   1 ... S0W1     CONS*
__   FEU.Z31B.PARMLIB    2 ... S0W1     CONS*
__   ADCD.Z31B.PARMLIB   3 ... S0W1     CONS*
__   SYS1.PARMLIB        4 ... S0W1     CONS*

Where it has colour coded the data sets, and the searched for member name is on the right end of the line. (Blue not found

Wow – sdsf can remember thousands of console commands

By default SDSF can remember up to 50 commands.

SDSF can support 1000’s of commands in its history list – and can also group them by user specified name. I have a group called zosmf, and it has all the commands for managing z/OSMF. I have another group for zowe, and this has the commands I use for Zowe.

This is documented here.

Customisation

This is documented here.

I allocated the dataset COLIN.SDSF.ISFTABL as a PDS FB LRECL80, 1 Cyl primary, 1 Cyl secondary.

I blogged on how to create a logon script for allocating your definitions.

The important part is you need to allocate the data set as ISFTABL

SET &SDSFTAB= &STR(&SYSUID..SDSF.ISFTABL)
ALLOC DA('&SDSFTAB') SHR FILE(ISFTABL)

Using it

Use the / command to display the pop up the System Command Extension window.

This has

   Edit  Options  Help                                                
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
                       System Command Extension                      
                                                                      
 ===> p izusvr1______________________________________________________
 ===> _______________________________________________________________                                                               
                                           
 Comment                                                              
                                                                      
 Group   ZOSMF             Show ZOSMF             (F4 for list)      
                                                                     
 =>  p izusvr1 
 =>  s izusvr1 
 =>   
 =>                                                                       
                                                                      
 F5=FullScr F6=Details F7=Up F8=Down F10=Save F11=Clear F12=Cancel

Type a command, specify a group, and press PF10 for save.

To display the commands for a group, either

  • tab down to Show and type the group name, or
  • tab down to Show and press PF4, then select the group

You use the Group field when saving commands, and Show when displaying commands.

Full screen display

You can press PF5 to make it full screen (or not full screen).