nretriev not working - need ispcmds entry?

[yarnseeker]

no matter what I do, i cannot get nretriev to work. I keep getting that it is an 'invalid command'

I read some doc and I'm wondering IF there is an entry missing in my ispcmds table. I see entries for retrieve and refadd etc but there is NO entry for nretriev.

Can somebody please check their command table and let me know IF they have an entry and if so, what it looks like?

I added 1 that looked like the retrieve command and that didn't work so I'm thinking it must execute a program w/ a an option IF it is in there.

[Steve Coalbran]

I am running under IPT so my command table may be slightly different but...

                                 Display ISPCMDS          Row 133 to 154 of 183
 Command ===>                                                  Scroll ===> PAGE
                                                                               
 The command table is currently open, it cannot be modified. Use the view(V)   
 row command to see an entire entry.                                           
                                                                               
      Verb      T  Action                                                      
      MSGID     0  SELECT PGM(ISPOMI) PARM(&ZPARM) NOFUNC                      
      NOP       0  NOP                                                         
      NRETRIEV  0  SETVERB                                                     
      PANELID   0  SELECT PGM(ISPOPI) PARM(&ZPARM) NOFUNC                      
      PFSHOW    0  SELECT PGM(ISPOPF) PARM(PFK,&ZPARM) NOFUNC SUSPEND SCRNAME(S
      ...

PS: I don't think I have ever used NRETRIEV !
Steve

[dbzthedinosaur]

our very own Jim Moore, in the TSO Times discusses Recalling Those Darn Dataset Names
and mentions (once or twice) that they - AUTOTYPE and NRETRIEV -

are best equated to spare PF Keys.

both of the following are tech-manuals discussions about

Example of an ISPF panel that enables NRETRIEV


Name retrieval with the NRETRIEV command

[yarnseeker]

thanks! that's it.

i've never been much in the habit of using reflists until recently. now i'm working on 3 different systems and NONE of the naming standard are remotely close so i can't recall all of the dsn's.

You might want to read this by Jim Moore.
http://www.tsotimes.com/articles/cur...aset_Names.htm

also covers autotype which i've never used before but sure plan on doing it now!

[Steve Coalbran]

Wicked! I have to RTFM more often!
Steve

[dbzthedinosaur]

You might want to read this by Jim Moore.
http://www.tsotimes.com/articles/cur...aset_Names.htm

thx, but that is the link that I provided in my post.

[yarnseeker]

we must've been posting at the same time.

folks should read a lot of his articles. like how to name your screens so when you swap you can see what you are swapping too. that's awesome. just showed a consultant that recently

another really useful trick is this one. I think I got this from him or Nadel or 1 of those smart guys!

find 'this is my really long string'
cha '*' 'this is my really REALLY long string'

the * refers back to the last find command so if you have a string that is too long to do the whole darn change command on 1 line, this is a real time saver. instead of changing long string to !!! and then !!! back to the new long string. etc

I'm all about typing avoidance.

[don.leahy]

Originally Posted by yarnseeker

we must've been posting at the same time.

folks should read a lot of his articles. like how to name your screens so when you swap you can see what you are swapping too. that's awesome. just showed a consultant that recently

another really useful trick is this one. I think I got this from him or Nadel or 1 of those smart guys!

find 'this is my really long string'
cha '*' 'this is my really REALLY long string'

the * refers back to the last find command so if you have a string that is too long to do the whole darn change command on 1 line, this is a real time saver. instead of changing long string to !!! and then !!! back to the new long string. etc

I'm all about typing avoidance.

You can also use the CMDE command to get a longer command line.

[yarnseeker]

CMDE isn't working here. might be missing the entry for that as well ! If you can pass that puppy along, I'd appreciate it. I might as well get them to fix ALL of the missing/bad entries at once

Either some of these are not working OR I don't understand their usage.

REFADDs seem to work
REFACTs seem to work

REFOPEND or REFOPENL and a reflist simply brings up the panel of ALL of my reflists and NOT the 1 i'm asking for!

REFLISTD and REFLISTL with ANYTHING after them, I get are invalid commands.

Can somebody please check these entries in ISPCMDS and let me know if they are OK?

REFACTD 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(PL1 &ZPARM) SUSPEND
REFACTL 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(LL1 &ZPARM) SUSPEND
REFADDD 0 SELECT PGM(ISRRSLST) PARM(PLA &ZPARM)
REFADDL 0 SELECT PGM(ISRRSLST) PARM(LLA &ZPARM)
REFLISTD 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(RL1 &ZPARM) SUSPEND
REFLISTL 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(LR1 &ZPARM) SUSPEND
REFOPEND 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(PL2) SUSPEND
REFOPENL 0 SELECT PGM(ISRDSLST) PARM(LL2) SUSPEND

[prino]

Check you site's concatenation of ISPTLIB, it might be that they still use an old ISPCMDS, because it contains site-specific commands that were never migrated to the site-specific command table(s).