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
  - Working with data set lists
  - Creating data sets and records
  - Creating, replacing, and adding data using existing data
  - Copying data sets
  - Cloning data sets
    The clone utility provides a convenient way to copy multiple sequential, partitioned, GDG, and VSAM data sets.
  - Finding and changing data in multiple PDS members
  - Working with files or members containing JCL
    When using the DSC or FCH utility with a file that contains JCL and the JCL Source format option has been selected, there are two methods used to maintain integrity.
  - Comparing data sets
  - Printing from File Manager
- 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, Indexed Search, and PDSE Workbench.
- 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

Using a DFSORT or REXX procedure

You can specify an existing DFSORT or REXX procedure, or create a new one, to further enhance the way in which data is selected and printed.

If you have a template, first use the selection criteria within the template to select your data. For more sophisticated tasks, use DFSORT statements to select data, manipulate the output records, and to write to other files. Use REXX to execute other functions that are provided by File Manager, and to perform complex tasks that cannot be achieved any other way.

Note: In REXX procedures for the Print Utility, avoid using the PRINT() function, as its output is interspersed with the output from the Print Utility.

For general information about using DFSORT or REXX procedures, see Enhancing File Manager processing.

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