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Notice: This site is being moved to https://github.com/lbdyck and https://lbdsoftware.gitbook.io and will be turned off sometime in mid 2024.


NO updates will be made to this site after November 10, 2023.

Welcome to my website which I've dedicated to making available to the 'world' software that I've written over the years. Here you will find XMITIP, the OS/390 and z/OS E-Mail application (on the TCP/IP Tools page) and many other tools for OS/390 and z/OS. These tools are primarily written in REXX with a few Assembler programs.

My name is Lionel B. Dyck and I've been in systems programming since 1972 (starting with MVT 21.6 - remember IBM APARs delivered on punch cards) and have developed a number of tools over the years. I've created this site to (1) share useful code that I've developed and (2) to return a little back to the community of mainframe systems programmers from whom I've learned so much. I've gleaned code and knowledge from the MVT Tools Tapes (remember the Blue Berets?) to the current CBT Tape and a wealth of Web Sites. I hope my contributions here are helpful to others.

These files are being made available (without any warranty or guarantee). The software was working when it was uploaded and the author accepts bug reports, suggestions, comments, and occasional complaints.

Looking for the ability to use git from ISPF then check out zigi.rocks and enjoy.

Featured: ISPF Developer Tips and Tricks.  This is a document, with usable examples, for ISPF Developers. The zip file contains a Sample PDS in XMIT format and document in EPub, Mobi (Kindle), and PDF formats. Version 1.9

Site Change History

05/11/2023 PDSEGEN v6.2.4 with small usability improvements
ZFSTOOLS update - several small improvements
02/11/2023 FTPB - Update to 2.029
01/31/2023 PDSEGEN - Many updates to v6.1.9
10/06/2022 PDSEGEN - Many updates to v6.03
09/17/2022 I have been remiss in updating this website - I have been more faithful in updating my files on the CBTTape and on my GitHub site.

Here are file updates (both new and updated)

ALTLIBST - A simple rexx command to display all active ALTLIBs with more details to make it usable.
FASTPATH - Small updates.
FTPB - Small useful updates. Enjoy the remote sync capability.
ISPFLLV - Don't ask, just get this and try it.
PDSEGEN - Many updates to v6.01
SAVELAB - Updates and new REXXLAB included.
SDSFXDD - An improved SDSFEXT using the SDSF REXX API.
SPELLC - Small udpates to dictionary.
WHOSON - Using SDSF REXX API to list all TSO users on all systems in the SYSPLEX.
ZFSTOOLS - Additional tools.
ZSYNC - Several improvements.
03/23/2022 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Several small fixes.
08/27/2021 Added EZMENU A simple way to create ISPF menus without dealing with ISPF Panels.
07/16/2021 Updated ZSYNC A sweet ISPF dialog to compare two partitioned datasets with a goal of sync'ing what's different. Updated with a small bug fix.
06/23/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Added support for passive (fwfriendly) connections.
05/24/2021 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Small updates.
05/13/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Added support for passive (fwfriendly) connections.

Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Updated to increase the buffer size for Partitioned Datasets with a very large number of members.

Updated ZFSTOOLS
A collection of useful tools for working with zFS datasets from an ISPF dialog. Added a new tool for zFS sizing.
04/23/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS. And the ability to selectively GET files (PS/PDS/PDSE) from the remote site.
04/22/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS. And the ability to selectively GET files (PS/PDS/PDSE) from the remote site.
04/06/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS. And the ability to selectively GET files (PS/PDS/PDSE) from the remote site.
04/05/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS. And the ability to selectively GET files (PS/PDS/PDSE) from the remote site.
03/26/2021 Updated XMITIP Updated with support for SLK  as a file suffix.
03/23/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS.
03/22/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection - update for an empty from PDS.
03/12/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now support for performing a sync of a PDS across an FTP connection.
03./01/2021 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Updated to increase the buffer size for Partitioned Datasets with a very large number of members.
02/11/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now including TLS support and a personal NETRC data set. Plus synchronize a local PDS with a remote PDS (not load modules) with remote compare. Correct generated JCL for unload of new target load library.
02/08/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now including TLS support and a personal NETRC data set. Plus synchronize a local PDS with a remote PDS (not load modules) with remote compare. Minor change to correct initial jobcard variables.
02/05/2021 Added IBM OS/VU Announcement and discussion thread.
02/03/2021 Updated FTPB A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now including TLS support and a personal NETRC data set. Plus synchronize a local PDS with a remote PDS (not load modules) with remote compare. Minor change to generated FTP statements for Sync processing.
01/29/2021 Added NETRC An ISPF dialog manage a users NETRC dataset.

Added SYNCFTP A REXX exec to push updates from a PDS that have changed in the last 'n' days to a remote PDS using FTP.

Updated FTPB
A very powerful ISPF dialog that simplifies the use of FTP (batch and foreground) for z/OS to z/OS or z/OS to anywhere.  Now including TLS support and a personal NETRC data set. Plus synchronize a local PDS with a remote PDS (not load modules) with remote compare.
11/12/2020 Updated QTAB An ISPF dialog display all active (open) ISPF Tables. Use this to verify a dialog has closed all the tables that it created, or just snoop around.

Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Updated to increase the buffer size for Partitioned Datasets with a very large number of members.
09/20/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. New option to leave cursor on last row selected.
09/12/2020 Updated OMVSPAX Improved the PAX backup process with 32720 for the BLKSIZE.
09/03/2020 Updated XMITIP Updated with support for multiple ReplyTo addresses.
08/24/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations.Fix to free newly allocated dataset after the MODEL command.
08/07/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Support dsname(member) in history.
08/02/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Enable updating the alias on muliple history datasets with one enter. Correct cursor placement on invalid dataset name insert.
07/31/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Enable updating the alias on muliple history datasets with one enter.
07/30/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. Complete rewrite of the history feature.

New: EDITMAC - an ISPF Edit Macro that enable the execution of inline ISPF Edit Macros.

Updated and Improved RUNC to version 6.0  with support for inline ISPF Edit Macros.
07/13/2020 Updated  TRYIT Updated to support ISPF Table Panels.
07/09/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.7.6 bug fix for scrolling.
06/06/2020 New: SHAREVAR A new tool that makes it easy to share REXX variables, including stems, between REXX execs. It does this using an ISPF variable thus requiring it to be used under ISPF.
06/03/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.7.4 bug fix for scrolling.
05/30/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.7.1 enables access to PDSE's that reside on EAV's.
05/23/2020 Updated: ZTSOHELP An ISPF dialog that provides an easy to use interface to TSO HELP members. Small cosmetic improvements.
05/15/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.7.0 fixing yet another bug with COMPARE -n while in Edit.
05/14/2020  Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. Support for symbolics in volser for PROGxx members.
04/06/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.9 fixing another bug with COMPARE -n while in Edit.
04/04/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.8 fixing a bug with COMPARE -n while in Edit.
03/13/2020  New TUTORPRT A command to print all ISPF tutorial panels from a provided starting panel. Can format as text, HTML, PDF, or RTF (requires the TXT2xxxx packages which can be found on this site).
03/10/2020  Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With updates from Hartmut to improve processing. Small improvements.
03/09/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.7 with support for defining an initial ISPF Edit macro.
03/02/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.6 with support for defining an initial ISPF Edit macro.
03/01/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.5 with support for defining an initial ISPF Edit macro.
02/08/2020 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Bug fix.
01/20/2020 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Many improvements - now using an ISPF Table for saved  label information

Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.4 with support for defining an initial ISPF Edit macro.
01/26/2020 Updated and Improved SPELLC An ISPF Edit macro to spell check text data on z/OS. Greatly expanded list of words.
01/20/2020 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Improved with new LIST and LISTS options for current active labels and a table list of active labels to jump to..
01/18/2020 Updated PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.3 with a bug fix to prevent copying to the source dataset.
01/10/2020 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Updated with small bug fixes (cosmetic) and new option to List all active labels.
01/08/2020 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.2 with some minor corrections.

Updated QTAB Updated to with ability to view all table rows in an open table and now the ability to find a table and to start with a table name to limit the list. Useful for debugging to see if an ISPF application leaves open tables when it ends.
12/31/2019 New ALIGN An ISPF Edit Command (Macro) to align text left, right, center, or reverse.
12/30/2019 Updated FIXKEYS An ISPF dialog developed in collaboration with others that makes it easy to update the PF Key defaults across ALL ISPF Profiles in the users profile data set. Some restrictions apply. Improved reporting.
12/23/2019 Updated: ZTSOHELP An ISPF dialog that provides an easy to use interface to TSO HELP members. Improved colorization.
12/20/2019 Updated and Improved ONLY An ISPF Edit command (macro) with improved capabilities beyond the one provided by IBM with the ability to find all records with string-1 and string-2.
11/25/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.6.0 with some minor corrections.
10/22/2019 Updated QTAB Updated to with ability to view all table rows in an open table. Useful for debugging to see if an ISPF application leaves open tables when it ends.
10/10/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.9 with some minor corrections.
09/17/2019 Updated PLPISPF Updated to support passing multiple parms with parens from the command line.
08/26/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.8 with some panel changes (typo corrections).
08/20/2019 Updated and Improved FTPBatch An ISPF dialog to simplify using FTP from z/OS. Support for NETRC being a PDS member.
08/21/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.7 with new filtering capabilties and some bug fixes.
08/20/2019 Updated and Improved FTPBatch An ISPF dialog to simplify using FTP from z/OS. Corrects bug with NETRC usage.
07/22/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.6 with minor updates.
07/02/2019 Updated and Improved FTPBatch An ISPF dialog to simplify using FTP from z/OS. Improved with support for persoanl NETRC data set.
06/25/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.5 with a few bug fixes and a new command REFLIST.
05/21/2019 Updated: ZSYNC - an ISPF dialog for comparing two data PDS/PDSE members and copying the delta members. Clean up in Tutorial Panel.
05/09/2019 Added:
FINDDDM
A REXX function to return the data set names from a concatenation where a member is found.
FINDDSN A REXX function to return the data set names for a concatenation.
05/02/2019 Updated  TRYIT Updated to improve messages.
04/29/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.3 Correcting a small starting issue introduced in 5.5.2.
04/27/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.2 Restoring the * parm when invoked that was broken in 5.5.1 :(
04/26/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.1 improves processing with TSO PROFILE NOPREFIX and new member selection for TRYIT.
03/25/2019 Updated  TRYIT Updated to detect popup panels.
03/11/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.5.0 with some minor improvements.
02/22/2019 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.9 with some minor improvements.
02/19/2019 Updated: ZSYNC - an ISPF dialog for comparing two data PDS/PDSE members and copying the delta members.
02/07/2019 Updated: SETCLIP - an ISPF dialog for creating and managing user defined Clipboards using standard ISPF Edit Cut and Paste functions. Read the short doc for more info.
01/28/2019 Updated FIXKEYS A new ISPF dialog developed in collaboration with others that makes it easy to update the PF Key defaults across ALL ISPF Profiles in the users profile data set. Some restrictions apply. Improved reporting.
01/25/2019 NEW FIXKEYS A new ISPF dialog developed in collaboration with others that makes it easy to update the PF Key defaults across ALL ISPF Profiles in the users profile data set. Some restrictions apply.
01/23/2019 Updated CAVXTRT A tool to extract reports from CA-View.
12/31/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.8 with some minor improvements.
12/27/2018 Updated and Improved RUNC to version 4.7 with new SET Prompt/NoPrompt and SET symbolic commands. Includes updated doc in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
12/19/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.6 with a update to the ISPF Browse long message when the member is in a PDSE with MAXGEN of 0.
12/18/2018 Updated and Improved RUNC to version 4.4 with new RENAME and SLEEP commands. Includes updated doc in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
11/16/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.5 with a cosmetic change for MINE and ID.
10/29/2018 Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With updates from Hartmut to improve processing.
10/23/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.4 with two new filter options (ID and Mine).
10/16/2018 Updated XMITIP Updated to bypass converting an existing HTML data set.

Updated PLPISPF Updated to support passing multiple parms with parens from the command line.

Updated PRMCK Enhanced to support multi-line LPA/LNKLST entries in PROGxx.
09/28/2018 Updated LSTPROC3 An ISPF command to display the active system PARMLIBs and JES3 managed PROCLIBs. Updated to address a unique use of DYNALLOC at one shop.
09/24/2018 Updated PLPISPF An ISPF Dynamic Menuing System. Eliminate the need to add, or update, ISPF menu panels using PLP. Manage the dynamic menu using a menu driven process. Dynamically allocate all resources.
09/14/2018 Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With updates from Hartmut to allow use in batch.
09/07/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Updated to allocate a PDSE instead of a PDS for the save location if it doesn't exist, and added new option of WHY to display an ISPF tutorial on why to use Edit Labels and SAVELAB.
09/06/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Major updates - Solid and Very Useful.
09/04/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Some useful cleanup.
09/01/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Enhanced with improved messages and automatic saving of labels if SAVELAB used prior to ending Edit.
08/31/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member. Enhanced with improved messages and command abbreviations.
08/27/2018 Updated and Improved SAVELAB An ISPF Edit macro to save, restore, and list Labels within an Edit member.
08/24/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.3 with a minor update to clean up the title.
08/10/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Updated to use SYSCALL services for the CD command.

Updated: OMVSSEL A REXX subroutine to run under ISPF to provide a simple tool to select an OMVS file from a ISPF 3.17 'like' interface and return the selected file to the caller. Updated to use SYSCALL services for the CD command.
08/07/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Support additional CD options.

Updated: OMVSSEL A REXX subroutine to run under ISPF to provide a simple tool to select an OMVS file from a ISPF 3.17 'like' interface and return the selected file to the caller. Support additional CD options..
08/03/2018 Updated  ZSYNC An ISPF dialog to compare two PDS (non-load) members and allow copy of the changed members. Added member pattern to member selection display.
07/31/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Minor bug fix.

Updated: OMVSSEL A REXX subroutine to run under ISPF to provide a simple tool to select an OMVS file from a ISPF 3.17 'like' interface and return the selected file to the caller. Minor bug fix.
07/27/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Added ability to do CD ~/subdir.

Added: OMVSSEL A REXX subroutine to run under ISPF to provide a simple tool to select an OMVS file from a ISPF 3.17 'like' interface and return the selected file to the caller.
07/24/2018 Updated: ZTSOHELP An ISPF dialog that provides an easy to use interface to TSO HELP members. Added to the index entries for additional SHA* commands from CBT File 900.
07/17/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Correct Cancel out of PDS member selection.
07/16/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Correct bug if Input PDS is empty.
07/13/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Now with SuperUser capability.
07/06/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL. Improvements in validating the Input and Output files.


Update to: XMITIP A very powerful SMTP mail generator for z/OS and OS/390 (batch and TSO). Supports file attachments as plain text, binary, or can convert files to html or rtf. Includes a very powerful ISPF dialog interface that simplifies the creation of SMTP mail from z/OS and OS/390. Now includes support for STARTTLS (Secure SMTP if using a SMTP server that supports STARTTLS like CSSMTP or Sendmail). Minor bug fix for file attachment name display with Outlook 2016/Office 365.
07/03/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Many usability improvements, including improved ability to use the cd (change directory) option on the OMVS selection display.
06/29/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL.

Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With the updated code to better support SMS managed datasets.

Update to: XMITIP A very powerful SMTP mail generator for z/OS and OS/390 (batch and TSO). Supports file attachments as plain text, binary, or can convert files to html or rtf. Includes a very powerful ISPF dialog interface that simplifies the creation of SMTP mail from z/OS and OS/390. Now includes support for STARTTLS (Secure SMTP if using a SMTP server that supports STARTTLS like CSSMTP or Sendmail). Minor bug fix for XMITIPSP.
06/26/2018 Updated: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format. Now includes the option to generate Batch JCL.
06/22/2018 Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With the updated code to better support SMS managed datasets.
06/19/2018 New: OMVSCOPY An ISPF dialog that front-ends TSO OCOPY to make it easy to copy an z/OS data set to an OMVS file and vice versa. Also included are JCL examples of using OCOPY in batch. This package is in TSO Transmit format.
05/25/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.2 with a minor update to several panels to clean up the title.
05/18/2018 Updated SDSFEXT A REXX Exec for use in Batch, or TSO, to extract sysout from the JES Spool using SDSF.

Added EXTISPF A REXX Exec
used as an ISPF Edit command (Macro) to extract the inline ISPF elements from an Exec that uses the LOADISPF process to dynamically load ISPF elements. Supplied in TSO XMIT format.
05/15/2018 Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents. With the updated code.
05/10/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.1 with a minor update to the copy routine and primary command tutorial panel.

Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.

Updated PRMCK An ISPF Edit command to validate PROGxx, LNKLSTxx, LPALSTxx, and IEAAPFxx member contents.
04/30/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.4.0 with enhancements for sites with > 99 generations allowed and users with > 9999 absolute generation counters. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
04/13/2018 Added  QTAB Simple ISPF command to display all open ISPF Tables with statistics
04/12/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.3.1 fixing a bug that prevented EDIT CANCEL from working. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
04/11/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.3.0 with several usability improvements. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
04/03/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.2.3 with more error checking. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
04/02/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.2.2 with a small bug fix a new Rename Swap line command. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
03/28/2018 Update to: XMITIP A very powerful SMTP mail generator for z/OS and OS/390 (batch and TSO). Supports file attachments as plain text, binary, or can convert files to html or rtf. Includes a very powerful ISPF dialog interface that simplifies the creation of SMTP mail from z/OS and OS/390. Now includes support for STARTTLS (Secure SMTP if using a SMTP server that supports STARTTLS like CSSMTP or Sendmail). Minor bug fix for text attachments with carriage control.
03/27/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.2.1 with a small bug fix and support for IBM's FileManager. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
03/26/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.2.0 with some small improvements. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
03/23/2018 Updated  TRYIT Updated to eliminate a duplicate dd random issue.
03/01/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.7 with some small improvements. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.

Updated OMVSMAN
with minor improvements to the ISPF dialog.

Updated ZTSOHELP with minor improvements to the ISPF dialog.
02/21/2018 New  RANDSTR A REXX exec for use in ISPF dialogs to generate a random 1 to any number of characters string that can be used for a DDName, ISPF Table name, member name, or whenever else you need an random character string. Including an option to use mixed case, the default is all upper case. It has been tested to produce zero duplicates with 100,000 iterations. Provided in TSO Transmit (XMIT) format.
02/21/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.6 with some small improvements. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
02/13/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.4 to fix a bug with the OUTPUT command if a user had NOPREFIX. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
02/09/2018 New  TSOProf An ISPF dialog to review and update key TSO PROFILE settings - in TSO Transmit format.
02/05/2018 Updated  ZSYNC An ISPF dialog to compare two PDS (non-load) members and allow copy of the changed members.
02/04/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.3 with several small usability enhancements. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
02/02/2018 Updated and Improved FTPBatch An ISPF dialog to simplify using FTP from z/OS. Improved with support for target Port, TLS, and pass phrases.
01/26/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.2 with another correction to the delete routine for non PDS/PDSE member generation members and change to the table display for last used option. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.

New  USSBATCH A REXX utility that simplies using OMVS commands in batch. Much easier than BPXBATCH and other tools but perhaps limited in comparison to some.
01/24/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.1 with a correction to the delete routine for non PDS/PDSE member generation members and support for up to 44,000 members (up from 4200). Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.

New  USSBATCH A REXX utility that simplies using OMVS commands in batch. Much easier than BPXBATCH and other tools but perhaps limited in comparison to some.
01/08/2018 Updated and Improved PDSEGEN An ISPF dialog to Browse, Edit, View, Compare, Copy, Mail, and more a PDSE Version 2 with generations. With full access to all generations. This is version 5.1.0 with several new features and some bug fixes. Check out the Users guide  in PDF, ePub and now in Mobi (for Kindle) and a new Reference card.
01/04/2018 Updated  ZSYNC An ISPF dialog to compare two PDS (non-load) members and allow copy of the changed members.