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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.
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.

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.
- 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 PDSE Workbench

You can invoke the PDSE Workbench using any of the following methods.

Invoking an ISPF command defined in the ISPF Command Table. See “Setting up your ISPF commands to invoke PDSE Workbench” in the File Manager Customization Guide.
Invoking a REXX exec. See “Setting up a REXX exec to invoke PDSE Workbench” in the File Manager Customization Guide.
Option 3.15 from the File Manager main menu.
When editing or viewing a member in a version 2 PDSE, press the enhanced search function key (FMNELIBD KEY or FMNSRCHK) with any abbreviation of History in the command line to invoke the workbench for the current data set.
When editing or viewing a member from an enhanced search report, enter H, HIST, or HISTORY on the command line to invoke the workbench for the current data set.
When editing a member such as a JCL or reference list member and the cursor is on the name of a version 2 PDSE, pressing the enhanced search function key displays a menu. Select option 12 to invoke the workbench for that data set.
Note: You can use a function key to bypass the menu. Specify either FMNELIBD KEY 12 or FMNSRCHK 12 depending on which method you use to invoke the enhanced search feature.
When a File Manager member list is displayed the workbench is invoked if any abbreviation of HISTORY is entered as a primary command.