Editing Library Members

While the aliasing methodology enables your JCL and CLIST procedures to use the standard library naming conventions from prior FOCUS releases, these logical names point to the physical data sets, which have new names in FOCUS 7.7.

Therefore, when you edit a member in a library, the data set in which the member actually resides will have a name of the form install_hlq.HOME.type or install_hlq.CONF.type, as described in FOCUS 7.7 Allocations. The physical data set name will display at the top of the screen when you edit a member using ISPF or IEDIT.

The following screen shows a listing of FOCUS alias libraries, generated in ISPF by displaying all data sets found under the FOCUS production high-level qualifier install_hlq. Note that the user wants to edit the FOCEXEC.DATA library:

  Menu  Options  View  Utilities  Compilers  Help                              
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DSLIST - Data Sets Matching install_hlq.*                      Row 1 of 43 
Command ===>                                                  Scroll ===> PAGE 
                                                                               
Command - Enter "/" to select action                  Message           Volume 
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         install_hlq.ADABAS.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.ADABAS.LOAD                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.DATACOM.DATA                                   *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.DATACOM.LOAD                                   *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.ERRNLS.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.ERRORS.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCCTL.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCDBC.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCDBC.LOAD                                    *ALIAS 
  E      install_hlq.FOCEXEC.DATA                                   *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCLIB.LOAD                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCM204.DATA                                   *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCM204.LOAD                                   *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCSQL.DATA                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCSQL.LOAD                                    *ALIAS 
         install_hlq.FOCSTYLE.DATA                                  *ALIAS 

The physical library, named install_hlq.HOME.FEX, opens for editing. The user can now select a member to edit:

  Menu  Functions  Confirm  Utilities  Help                                    
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EDIT              install_hlq.HOME.FEX                Row 00001 of 00928 
Command ===>                                                  Scroll ===> PAGE 
           Name     Prompt       Size   Created          Changed          ID   
_________ ADDSCR                                                               
_________ ADUACC                                                               
_________ ADUBTQ                                                               
_________ ADUBTQIN                                                             
_________ ADUB41IN                                                             
_________ ADUCLR                                                               
_________ ADUCOMPL                                                             
_________ ADUERR                                                               
_________ ADUGLOB                                                              
_________ ADUINST                                                              
_________ ADULOAD                                                              
_________ ADUMAIN                                                              
_________ ADUMAS                                                               
_________ ADUMOVE                                                              
_________ ADUOPT                                                               
_________ ADUPAR                                                               
_________ ADUPRO                                                               
_________ ADUREL                                                               
_________ ADUSEC 

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