Working with File Manager
- File Manager overview
- Getting started with File Manager
- Viewing and changing data sets
  To view data stored in a supported data set, use the View Utility or the Edit Utility.
- Creating and editing templates
  For many tasks performed with File Manager, you can manipulate your view of a data set by applying a template.
- Working with the Template List
  Display a list of templates and perform actions on them.
- Filtering records with templates
- Managing data sets
- Using File Manager utilities
- Tape Specific Functions
- Disk/VSAM Data Functions
- OAM Functions
- Using UNIX™ System Services and the Hierarchical File System
- Introduction to programming with File Manager functions
  - Summary of File Manager functions
  - Using File Manager functions in REXX procedures or TSO clists
    - Invoking File Manager panels from REXX procedures or TSO clists
      You can directly invoke File Manager panels from any REXX procedure or TSO clist (or ISPF Command line).
    - Invoking File Manager functions from a REXX procedure or CLIST in /BATCH mode
      Some functions which do not require user interaction (such as DSC, DSP, DVT, FCH, and SCS) and are otherwise available for JCL batch processing can also be invoked from a REXX program under TSO/ISPF in a pseudo-batch mode.
  - Using File Manager functions in batch jobs
    You can perform file management tasks by calling File Manager functions from a batch job.
  - Destination of File Manager print output
    Any File Manager print output that you produce in a batch job is sent to SYSPRINT by default.
  - Handling errors
- Enhancing File Manager processing
  You can enhance normal processing of a number of File Manager tasks by supplying a procedure that runs in conjunction with the File Manager process.
- Redefines criteria
  Redefines criteria can be specified for a field with a REDEFINES clause, or a field that is the target of a REDEFINES clause.
- Enhanced ISPF: Reference List, Search, Change, and PDSE Workbench
  File Manager provides several enhancements to the basic facilities that are available in an ISPF session: Enhanced Reference List, Enhanced Search, Enhanced Change, and PDSE Workbench.
- File Manager Service Provider for z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition
  File Manager Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Function and panel reference lists

Invoking File Manager panels from REXX procedures or TSO clists

You can directly invoke File Manager panels from any REXX procedure or TSO clist (or ISPF Command line).

For example, from any ISPF Command line, enter the following command to display the File Manager Print Utility (option 3.2) panel:

FILEMGR DSP

(that is, as if you were calling the function, but with no $ before the function name and no parameters following it, except for DSB, DSE, and DSV as described below)

Note: Except for View (option 1) and Edit (option 2), you cannot specify any parameters when you use this method to invoke a panel. If you specify a valid data set name after DSB, DSE, or DSV then you bypass the entry panel (where you would normally specify the data set name), and go directly to viewing or editing the specified data set.

For a complete list of the equivalent function names you can use to invoke File Manager panels, see Summary of File Manager panels.