System Parameters

Display cancel confirmation

Specify if you want to receive a cancel confirmation screen when you use the CANCEL primary command.

• Y - Yes, (default) displays the cancel confirmation screen.
• N - No, does not display the cancel confirmation screen.

Specify whether to display the “records not selected” message line on the data display when using selection criteria in browse or edit. This line is displayed instead of the data records. It indicates the records that were not selected for the browse or edit session.

• Y - Yes, (default) File-AID displays “records not selected” message line.
• N - No, File-AID does not display the “records not selected” message line.

Code page identifier that is used for character data validation, display, and printing. The Character set field is typically used by sites outside of the USA.

Specify one of the following valid three- or four-character code-page identifiers to select an alternate character set:

File-AID attempts to determine the correct code page by checking the current terminal type setting in Option 0.0 ISPF Settings. File-AID/MVS associates a code page based on terminal type as follows:

- (hyphen) indicates a position of the terminal type that is not checked. If File-AID/MVS cannot determine which code page to use, it selects English (USA).

The four-digit code page identifier is stored in your user profile. After a code page is stored, File-AID uses that character set code page until you change it. Enter blanks in the Character set field to have File-AID re-determine the code page value.

Controls the jump function (=) which lets you jump the screen display from one function to another without passing through the primary menu. The jump function is the same as that provided in ISPF. Entering =2 displays option 2 of the primary menu (ISPF or File-AID).

• N - No, (default) disables the File-AID/MVS jump function and uses the ISPF Menu for reference.
• Y - Yes, enables the jump function and uses the File-AID/MVS Primary Option Menu for reference.

Specify your choice of character that you want File-AID/MVS to use when displaying data that does not have a valid character interpretation for your terminal type. Only valid for Character (CHAR), Vertical Formatted (VFMT) and Unformatted (UNFMT) modes in Browse, does not apply to Edit.

• In File-AID/Batch, use the NONDISPCHAR (NDC) parameter for the LIST, PRINT, DUMP and VPRINT functions.
• Use the File-AID/MVS PARMLIB NON_DISPLAYABLE_CHARACTER parameter to configure your site default.

A temporary work file is allocated by File-AID once per TSO session per logical screen. The intermediate work file is sometimes used to support your processing requests when using the Edit (2), Search/Update (3.6) and Interactive Batch (3.8) functions of File-AID.

If more records are being written to the work file than can be contained within the space allocated, File-AID will recognize an x37 abend. If you need a larger work file, change the allocation defaults with this 0.1 System Parameters function. Changes are effective immediately. Note that your File-AID work files are automatically deleted when you logoff from TSO. When you Edit a large sequential file, you may need a work file large enough to hold all records of the file.

Specify one of the following storage unit types depending on how the data set size is expressed:

• TRKS - Tracks
• CYLS - Cylinders.
• BLKS - Number of blocks.

Specify the name of the data set that includes lists of concatenated record layout files.  Each member of this data set contains a list of data sets to be concatenated and used for the Record Layout Dataset in the Browse, Edit, Print, XREF, VIEW, and Compare functions. If concatenated record layouts are not required, leave this field blank.

You maintain this library; File-AID does not provide any special editing functionality for this data set.

Keep the following guidelines in mind:

• In a member of the Library, enter a list of the DSNs of the Record Layout data sets you want to concatenate. Put one DSN per line.
• If you use fully qualified names, begin them with single quotes — Otherwise the TSO prefix (userid) will be added automatically.
• The data sets in the list must all be FB 80 PDS or PDSE libraries.
• Do not specify GDGs, flat files, zFS files, VSAM, CA Librarian, CA Panvalet, or VB/VBS/U.
• You may specify up to 16 data set names.
• Any text on a line after the DSN is a comment. Blank lines are ignored. Putting an asterisk in column 1 of any line denotes a comment line.
• On the individual panel where you wish to use your DSN list (such as Edit or Browse Dataset Specification panel), in the field labeled Record Layout Dataset, specify a plus sign followed by the full member name (+membername) containing your DSN list.
• The concatenation list is used in place of the single Record Layout dataset name. If the libraries in the list contain duplicate layout names, File-AID will always select the first occurrence.

Specify the name of Field Ordering dataset.

The field order held and/or hidden fields specified in the Field Order Settings pop-up can be saved to or retrieved from the Field Ordering dataset.

The dataset, whether fixed or variable length, must be a partitioned dataset ( PDS or PDSE ) with a minimum LRECL of 50. If variable length, there is no limit on the maximum LRECL, but the maximum length of a valid variable-length record that can be saved and loaded is 255 bytes. That is, a PDS with RECFM=FB and LRECL=80 or RECFM=VB and LRECL=300, is valid.

In Formatted (FMT) or Vertical Formatted (VFMT) mode of Browse and Edit, the ORDER <blank>, HOLD <blank> or HIDE <blank> primary commands display the Field Order Settings pop-up.

The SAVE and LOAD commands in the pop-up, defaults to the Field Ordering dataset specified in the 0.1 System Parameters.