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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
EFind command syntax
How the data set or resource list is determined
If you specify PARMLIB, PROCLIB, ddnames, RESULT or /reference_member on the EFind command, these will be used to determine the data sets to be searched.

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
      - How the data set or resource list is determined
        If you specify PARMLIB, PROCLIB, ddnames, RESULT or /reference_member on the EFind command, these will be used to determine the data sets to be searched.
        Overriding the data set list from a REXX exec
    - 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

How the data set or resource list is determined

If you specify PARMLIB, PROCLIB, ddnames, RESULT or /reference_member on the EFind command, these will be used to determine the data sets to be searched.

If none of these fields is specified, the EFind command will try to determine the data sets to be searched as follows:

If there is an active EFind session, the current EFind data sets will be searched.
From an ISPF edit or view session of a member in the reference data set. The resource names specified in the member will be searched. See Specifying resource names in a reference member.
Note: You can exclude lines in the member to exclude resources from the search.
From an ISPF 3.4 or DSLIST display, the data sets in the list will be searched.
From a member list produced from ISPF 3.4 or DSLIST, the current data set name will be used.
From an ISPF edit or view session of a member or data set that is not the reference data set. The data set name will be used as the search data set.
However, EFind will not work from a member list produced from ISPF Option 1 (View) or ISPF Option 2 (Edit).
If EFind is unable to determine the data set list, then it will use the member named DEFAULT in the current reference list data set to determine the data sets to be searched. Use the EList command to view the current reference list data set and look for the member named DEFAULT to view the default search data set names.