Did you know how to make TSS command outout scrollable?

[Anon Anon]

Did you know there is a way to make TSS command output scrollable?

A REXX to put TSS command output into a dataset temporarily is provided
in the CAKOCLS0 library for r15(CAICLS0 library for r14).

The member name is TSSBRWZ.

Copy the member into a library allocated at SYSPROC DD in your logon procedure.

Then you can use the REXX in place of TSS command as follows;
TSS MODI ---> TSSBRWZ MODI

Tom.

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[Legacy User]

Hello Tom,

Did you know that you can use it for any command with few modification?

Jacques.

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[Anon Anon]

Jacques,

Let everyone know some examples.

Tom.

 

 

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[Anon Anon]

I don't know how others do it, but I know I'm not the only REXXer who's written such a utility.  The way mine works, you put the command (I call it "DISP") in front of any TSO command—almost any TSO command—and it executes normally but displays the output in a View session instead of TSO's "line mode".

So, for example, instead of

tso tss list(victim) data(xauth)

...I would type

tso disp tss list(victim) data(xauth)

The DISP command turns on the TRAP facility, executes whatever the rest of the command is, then copies the trapped output to a temporary dataset and fires up View to display it.

Others way have other ways of doing it.  I never knew about this TSS variant.

Oh, I said "almost any TSO command"; apparently there are some programs that write their output in some form that can't be trapped in the usual way.  I've heard a term ascribed to this kind of output; "WTOR", maybe?  I forget.  Anyway, it works with all but a few commands, not just TSS.

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