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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.
Using Enhanced Reference List, Search, and Change
Reference data set
Specifying resource names in an reference member

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
    - Reference data set
    - EFind command syntax
    - EChange command syntax
    - Enhanced Search command panel
      You can run all the options of the EFind command from the panel. File Manager maintains a history of the last 50 commands.
    - Enhanced Search member hit selection list panel
      This panel appears if a successful enhanced search is performed with the List option specified.
    - Enhanced Change command panel
      You can run all the options of the EChange command from the panel. File Manager maintains a history of the last 50 commands.
    - Enhanced Change command member list panel
      This panel displays the reference member list.
    - Navigating the Enhanced search and Change report
    - Using the F4 function key
    - Examples: Enhanced Reference List and Search
    - Examples: Enhanced 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

Specifying resource names in an reference member

A line can contain up to four resource names that can be used with the F4 key to populate the corresponding File Manager functions. Only the first resource name on each line is used in determining the list of resources to be searched. The resource name can be any of the following types:

A fully qualified data set name. TSO prefixing is not applied to names, and quotation marks should not be specified. Generic names are supported but be careful not to use ** because this will result in a long catalog search. You can also specify generic member names as part of the resource name.
An HFS file name or directory name
An FM/CICS resource name in the form: rt:applid:rname
Where:

rt

Is the resource type. Valid values are:

FI

For a CICS® File

TD

For Transient Data

TS

For a Temporary Storage Queue

applid

Is the VTAM® applid of the CICS® system. You can specify a generic name to search a list of CICS® systems if an FMNCICS DD describing CICS® applids has been allocated to the ISPF session. See File Manager Customization Guide for details.

rname

Is the name of the resource. You can specify a generic name to search a list of resources.
An MQ queue might be specified in the following notation:
MQ: Queue_manager : Queue_name
Where:

Queue_manager

Is the name of a local queue manager. Generic names can be specified.

Queue_name

Is the queue name and it is case-sensitive. Generic names are supported.
Remote resource definitions can be specified in the following form:
RM:remote_id:resource name
Where:

remote_id

Is the 1-8 character remote connection definition. Generic names are not supported. The remote ID must be defined; otherwise, an error occurs. Use the F4 function key with the Select option to verify what you have entered.

resource name

Any data set, path, or CICS® resource name can be specified.

Note: You can use the F4 function key (see Using the F4 function key) with the Select option to list and populate resource names.