Entering TED

After entering FOCUS, to enter the TED environment and begin creating or editing files, issue the command

TED

at the FOCUS command prompt, followed by the name of the sequential file you want to edit or create.

To edit a FOCEXEC, issue the following command on z/OS, where FOCEXEC is the DDNAME for the PDS in which the file resides.

TED FOCEXEC(member)

On distributed systems, issue the following command.

TED filename.fex

Or, since FOCEXEC is the default DDNAME for TED on z/OS, and .fex is the default extension for TED on distributed systems, you can issue the following command to edit a FOCEXEC.

TED name 

To edit a file that is not a FOCEXEC on z/OS, issue the following command.

TED {ddname[(member)]|'dataset'}

where:

ddname

Is the DDNAME of the PDS in which the member resides, the DDNAME allocated to a sequential file, or the fully-qualified data set name of a sequential file enclosed in single quotation marks.

member

Is the member to edit, if the DDNAME is allocated to a PDS.

To edit a file that is not a FOCEXEC on distributed systems, issue the following command.

TED name.ext

where:

name

Is the name of the file.

ext

Is the file extension, for example .mas for a Master File.

See z/OS Guide to Operations, for more information about referring to DDNAMEs on z/OS.

You can also use TED to enter and edit fields with a text (TX) format. In this case, TED is entered in a MODIFY request (see the Maintaining Databases manual).