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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.
Define the search command with LIBDEFs

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.
- 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

Define the search command with LIBDEFs

Using ISPF option 3.9, specify a command as illustrated below:

Figure 1. Command Table Utility Extended Command Entry

  File  Menu   Utilities   Help
───────────────────────────────Command Table Utility───────────────────────────
                              Extended Command Entry
  Command ===>                                                                 
  
  Make changes to the command and select Update to update the entry or
  Cancel to ignore the changes.

    Verb  . . . EFind          
    Trunc . . . 2
    Action  . . SELECT CMD(%FMNELIBD FND &ZPARM)                                  
                                                                                  
                                                                                  
                                                                                  
    Description File Manager enhanced search facility                             
                                      

    Enter / to select option    
    /  Allow mixed-case in Action field  
 
                                Update                   Cancel

Note: Choose a command name that is unique, memorable, and short to make the invocation of the search processing easy for the users. Do not use F as that will conflict with the editor FIND command. Alternate names could be ZF or SRCH.