🔧 ISPF Tips & Tricks

See unsaved changes with COMPARE SESSION Change a member's USER ID with the G line command Check your region and user details with SAREA Retain commands on the command line with & Find who is holding your dataset (F1 twice) Find PDS members by pattern with 4.12 Browse recently viewed datasets with REFLIST COMPARE command - a SuperCE alternative that pulls lines Autocomplete dataset names with AUTOTYPE Find which PDS holds a member with the MEMBER command Recall your last 25 commands with RETP Open any member fast with the S line command Open any dataset directly with EPDF (skip 3.4) Compare against last save with COMP * X Edit the clipboard and use named clipboards (CUT DISPLAY) Append to the clipboard with CUT APPEND SRCHFOR popup - search up to 6 strings at once Cycle dataset history with one key (NRETRIEV) Recall commands with one key (RETRIEVE) See tape dataset info with the TI command FIND and CHANGE power tips - quotes, PREV, columns, picture strings Sort members by Changed date and FILTER the member list Compare specific columns across files in SuperCE (CMPCOLMN) Wrap text to any width with TF (TF20) Handy commands - SYSNAME, USERID, PANELID, MSGID Send messages to colleagues with TSO SEND