8 The ISPF editor
The ISPF editor is the most powerful line-oriented data set editor in the world. It is therefore ideally suited to edit program source code, test data, JCL, and so on. In the following sections, I will give you different examples that show the performance of the ISPF editor. In these examples, the windows clipboard is in different ways used as a passing memory. We work here with the 3270 emulator software from IBM under Windows.
The follow on for the sake of completeness: You reach the editor by selecting option 2 from the primary option menu. Usually, the editor will started directly by entering an e in front of the name of a data set in a DSLIST display. On this occasion, we might as well mention two relatives of the editor, ...
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