User’s Guide

9 Utilities for allocated data sets

There are three Utilities available for displaying and controlling the data sets allocated to your TSO user. These commands are actually TSO commands. These can be, Unlike some other TSO commands, invoked directly in an ISPF command line.

These commands are DDLIST, ISRDDN and ISRFIND.

Basics:

–   DDLIST and ISRDDN are synonyms for exactly the same function, which means you can use either one of them. In further explaining, I will always use DDLIST. Calls to ISRDDN and ISRFIND must always be by TSO preceded. E.g. TSO ISRDDN and TSO ISRFIND.

–   ISRFIND plays no role in daily work within ISPF because its functions can also be achieved via using the normal ISPF DSLIST function. Therefore, I will not go into details ...