Summary of changes
November 2024, V15R1M6
This edition of the document provides updated information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 6. Here are the major
changes to this document from the previous release:
- Auto detect for compiler languages now supports Assembler and is more efficient. See "Auto detect" in Selecting your compiler language.
- New keywords for the File Manager DEFV function to produce VSAM define statements for Data, Index, and Catalog names in addition to supporting alternate Index, Path, and GDG data sets. See DEFV (Define VSAM Statements) for the syntax and details.
July 2024, V15R1M5 (refresh)
This edition of the document provides updated information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 5. It is a refresh of
Version 15.1.5 and contains some additional enhancements as well as minor changes and clarifications to the
information in the previous version. Here are the major changes to this document from the previous release:
- The Size column can now be changed to a User column showing the last user to modify the member on the Enhanced Reference and Index member list displays. This is supported via F11 (USER column) and F10 (Size column) function keys. See Field Descriptions for the Enhanced Reference List panel.
- Proclib and Parmlib data sets are now available for selection via the Enhanced Edit key Select option 3. See Using F4 from any edit or view session when positioned on a string or word.
- Reference data set list definitions are now supported. Leaving the Reference data set name blank now provides for the selection from a predefined Reference data set list if an FMNLREFS DD is found, as well as selection from a user history. See Defining a Reference data set selection list.
- Index data set list definitions are now supported. Leaving the Index data set name blank now provides for the selection from a predefined Index Data Set List if an FMNLIDXS DD is found, as well as selection from a user history. See Defining an Index Data Set List.
June 2024, V15R1M5
This edition of the document provides updated information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 5. Here are the major
changes to this document from the previous release:
- A comma character (,) is now supported in place of a decimal separator when processing numeric values. This new support includes a new File Manager installation option, COMMADEC, an additional option on the Compiler Language Selection panel, and a new keyword definition in the SET (Set Processing Options).
- Load Module link date and time:
- View Load Module member lists now support link date and time. The new option, Link date and time, is optional. See Load Module Information - Selection panel.
- The Enhanced edit key menu has been updated to include a new option 14, Load, which can be used to produce a view load module member list on one or more load libraries with optional link date and time and duplicate members displayed. See Using F4 from any edit or view session when positioned on a string or word.
- A new option, 5 Load, has been added to the List and Search options panel that invokes the view load module member list for all the load libraries found in the view or edit session. See Using F4 from the command line.
- Four new options (Dslist, UDlist, Search, Change) have been added to the menu displayed when pressing F4 (enhanced edit key) from the command line of an enhanced search report. See Using F4 for enhanced search report filtering commands.
- You can now create your index definition member with an ISPF dialog that guides you in generating an index definition member. See Index data set name panel and Index language/data set groups panel.
- The DEFV function now supports generating the DATACLASS, MANAGEMENTCLASS, and STORAGECLASS values via a new keyword, SMS=YES. See DEFV (Define VSAM Statements) for the complete syntax.
- Data set detail panels now display the encryption status and key label of a data set, and data set definition panels provide the option of specifying a key label when defining a data set. When an encrypted data set is copied to a previously non-existent data set using the DSNOUT keyword with the DSC command, File Manager attempts to create the new data set with the same key label as the original data set. See Allocate (Two) panel, Non-VSAM Allocate panel, Non-VSAM Entry Detail panel, VSAM Define panel, and VSAM Entry Detail panel.
March 2024, V15R1M4
This edition of the document provides updated information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 4. Here are the major
changes to this document from the previous release:
- A new keyword option, KSDSUPD, has been added to the Data Set Copy (DSC) function to manage matching record keys. When record keys from the source data set match record keys in the destination data set, you can choose to either overlay them in the destination data set or, you can leave them unchanged and return a message indicating that there is a duplicate key. See DSC (Data Set Copy) for more information about this keyword.
January 2024, V15R1M3 (refresh)
This edition of the document provides updated information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 3. It is a refresh of
Version 15.1.3 and contains some additional enhancements as well as minor changes and clarifications to the
information in the previous version. Here are the major changes to this document from the previous release:
- Enhancements to the enhanced ISPF processing:
- Extended member lists are now produced for view or edit functions when a partitioned data set with a generic or blank member name is being processed.
- A view or edit of a DD statement containing concatenated partitioned data sets now supports an extended member list for all corresponding cataloged data sets.
- Variables defined in an INCLUDE member are now processed and resolved when processing data set names.
- Option 4, Dslist, has been extended to support the display of an ISPF data set list when positioned on a DD statement, and a UNIX directory list when positioned on a UNIX path or file name. See Using F4 from any edit or view session when positioned on a string or word for more information.
- Two new prefix commands are available for the enhanced reference list display:
- L: produces an ISPF data set list.
- U: produces a UNIX directory list.
- Pressing the function key with 4 in the command line when viewing or editing produces a data set list for up to 30 data set names referenced in the session.
- Pressing the function key with 4U in the command line when viewing or editing produces a UNIX directory list for up to 30 path or file names referenced in the session.
October 2023, V15R1M3
This edition of the document provides information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 3. It contains minor changes and clarifications to the information in the previous version.
August 2023, V15R1M2 (refresh)
This edition of the document provides information applicable to File Manager
Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 2. It is a refresh of the previous version and contains some additional
enhancements as well as minor changes and clarifications to the information in the previous version. Here are the
major changes to this document from the previous release.
- A new option, option 13, has been added to the Enhanced Search KEY menu panel to allocate, change or invoke catalog services against a data set name that the cursor is positioned on. See Using F4 from any edit or view session when positioned on a string or word for more information about this new option.
- Indexed search changes:
- The restriction of a maximum of 22 data sets when duplicated members are not being processed has been removed.
- Automatic word detection has been introduced as the simpler and recommended method for determining words. See Automatic word detection for more details.
- A new option, ASIS, has been added to suppress automatic encapsulation and, automatic encapsulation has been limited to when a delimiter is encountered or when the first character is a quote. See Copy To panel and DSC (Data Set Copy) for more details about automatic encapsulation.
June 2023, V15R1M2
This edition of the document provides information applicable to File Manager
Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 2. Here are the major changes to this document from the previous the
previous release.
- The File Manager Data Set Copy (DSC) function and the Copy From and Copy To panels now support importing CSV files. See DSC (Data Set Copy), Copy From panel, and Copy To panel for more information.
March 2023, V15R1M1
This edition of the document provides information applicable to File Manager
Version 15 Release 1 Modification Level 1. Here are the major changes to this document from the previous the
previous release.
- The indexed search provides a way to perform a fast search across one or more partitioned data sets. The results are displayed in the index search report containing the list of matching words, the number of lines where the word occurs, the number of data sets containing occurrences of the word, and the number of members. See Indexed search for information about how to set up and use the indexed search.
October 2022, changes for V15R1 First Edition
This edition of the document provides information applicable to File Manager Version 15 Release 1
Modification Level 0. Here are the major changes to this document from the previous
the previous release.
- The indexed search provides a way to perform a fast search across one or more partitioned data sets. The results are displayed in the index search report containing the list of matching words, the number of lines where the word occurs, the number of data sets containing occurrences of the word, and the number of members. See Indexed search for information about how to set up and use the indexed search.