REXX /CLIST PANEL- finding code location

Question

Is there any way to find quickly the program behind a rexx/clist panel. I know that i have check one by one all the panle librairies to find the panel. But it takes lot of time.

Thanks

Answer 1

First step is is to turn panelid on with the ispf panelid command

panelid on

This will list name of panel on all ISPF panels being displayed

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Actually you do not need to search each panel library, you can use Ispf rexx program to allocate a DataId to ispplib and edit using the DataId i.e.

/* rexx */
address ispexec
'LMINIT DATAID(didVar) DDNAME(ISPPLIB)'
'edit DATAID('didVar') memeber(panelname)'
'lmfree DATAID('didVar')'

Note: If you make changes while editing, the changes are saved in the first library in the list. So if ISPPLIB is setup as

  my.panels
  test.panels
  prod.panels

any changes will always be save in my.panels

Note: if you edit without a specifying the member, the member list will include a dataset number relating to the top level where the panel will be picked up from.

Note: There is almost certainly a limit on the number datasets that can be accessed this way. So if there are a lot of datasets allocated to ISPPLIB, there could be issues.

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Hopefully there will be a

1. Relationship between where the panel is stored and where the rexx/clist is stored
2. relationship between the panel name and the rexx/clist name; often they are nearly the same. Some times the panel might have a P at a certain character position while the rexx might have a R

If there is no relationship between the panel and the Rexx/clist; you will have to search for it. You could set up a batch search for to search for the panel in all the rexx/clist libraries. A bit of a pain to set up, but it only has to be done once and then you have it for future use. If you want to get really smart you could use the LM services to extract rexx/clist libraries

Answer 2

Building on some of what @Bruce Martin said, type TSO ISRDDN on any COMMAND ==> line in ISPF. Use the member command to search your SYSPROC and SYSEXEC concatenations. You can also use SRCHFOR when in a member list, looking for the panel name.