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Working with File Manager
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.
PDSE Workbench
Use PDSE Workbench to manage members of all PDS and PDSE data sets, including member generations.
Using PDSE Workbench
If the workbench is invoked through option 3.15 or an ISPF command without a data set name being provided, the PDSE Workbench Entry Panel is displayed.
Primary commands
PDSE Workbench supports the following primary commands for working with member lists.

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
- 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.
  - Setting up the enhanced ISPF commands
    There are two methods of setting up the enhanced ISPF commands.
  - Using Enhanced Reference List, Search, and Change
  - Indexed search
    Use the indexed search to search for words in one or more partitioned data sets that are not load libraries. The search uses an index that contains all of the words and the occurrences of each word in a group of data sets.
  - PDSE Workbench
    Use PDSE Workbench to manage members of all PDS and PDSE data sets, including member generations.
    - Invoking PDSE Workbench
      You can invoke the PDSE Workbench using any of the following methods.
    - Using PDSE Workbench
      If the workbench is invoked through option 3.15 or an ISPF command without a data set name being provided, the PDSE Workbench Entry Panel is displayed.
      - Member list field descriptions
        Use the input fields to specify the list of members and generations in PDSE Workbench.
      - Primary commands
        PDSE Workbench supports the following primary commands for working with member lists.
      - Prefix commands
        PDSE Workbench supports the following prefix commands for working with member lists.
- 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

Primary commands

PDSE Workbench supports the following primary commands for working with member lists.

DELETE

The DELETE command allows for the deletion of multiple members within a PDS or PDSE, depending on the keyword specified.

For the standard member list primary commands, see Available commands in Member Selection panel.

ALL: Delete all members that match the member name filter, and any related aliases. Aliases are not deleted unless the primary member name also matches the member name filter.
Orphan: Delete all orphaned members that match the member name filter. Orphan members are member generations without a current member. A current member is generation 0.
Trim: Retain up to the number of generations specified by nnnn. All other member generations that match the member name filter are deleted. This also applies to orphaned member generations and member generations that are not displayed because they exceed the generation limit.
nnnn must be in the range 0 to 2000000000.

Enter the DELETE command without any keywords to select the required DELETE option from a pop-up panel.

HIDE

The HIDE primary command toggles the display of the input fields on the PDSE Workbench. Hiding the input fields maximizes the size of the member list. When the input fields are hidden, enter HIDE to show them again.