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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.
Member list field descriptions
Use the input fields to specify the list of members and generations in PDSE Workbench.

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

Member list field descriptions

Use the input fields to specify the list of members and generations in PDSE Workbench.

For details of the columns displayed in the member list, see Column descriptions

Data set name

Specify a fully qualified or generic data set name of either a PDS or PDSE.

Specify a generic data set name to select a data set from the data set selection list for processing by the PDSE Workbench.
Leave the data set name blank to select from the history of up to 50 previous data sets used by the PDSE Workbench.

Member name

Specify a member name or member name pattern to display in the member list. Leave blank to display all members.

Generation limit

Defines the maximum number of member generations to be displayed for each member. Specify a value in the range 0 to 2000000000 or leave the field blank to indicate no limit. This field is ignored for data sets that do not support member generations.

Compare option

Enter one of the following values to set a prefix command (CC, CN, CP, or CS) to be used with the compare utility.

ISPF Edit compare, using the ISPF VIEW service. This is the default option.
SuperC compare.
File Manager Compare function (DSM).

Notes:

For the ISPF and SuperC compare utilities, selected member generations are copied to a temporary data set to perform the comparison.
To compare unformatted records such as program objects, where the compare option specifies ISPF Edit compare, the DSM function (Data Set Compare) will be used.