Freeware: ISPF app - Clipboard/PasteIt!

ClipBoard/PasteIt! is an ISPF application that enhances the IBM-supplied ISRCUT and ISRPASTE edit macros.

This application has two Rexx Execs:

PASTEIT - displays a completely blank input screen that allows pasting of text wider and higher than the ISPF editor input area.

With the PASTEIT exec, you will never get a screen overflow error when using paste into the ISPF editor again.

Once you've pasted your data on the blank input screen, you can then use the IBM-supplied PASTE edit macro (ISRPASTE) to paste these lines into your edit dataset.
CLIPBRD - Shows either a Browse, Edit or View of the lines in the "Clip Board". These are the lines that have been cut via the IBM-supplied ISRCUT edit macro.

Usage:
- CLIPBRD
- CLIPBRD BROWSE
- CLIPBRD EDIT
- CLIPBRD VIEW

Download information
File Name:	CLIPBRD.ZIP
File Format:	PKZIP file containing a TSO XMIT file
Size:	8,460
Last Updated:	15-JUN-1998
Version:	1.1
Type:	ISPF application
Requirements:	IBM ISRCUT and ISRPASTE edit macros copied from ISPF sample library ISPF v3 or higher

Application notes:

I wrote this application because I was sick and tired of getting an error that I had tried to paste into the ISPF editor with text that was slightly wider or taller than the input area on the screen.
As you will see when looking at the code, I threw this together in a few minutes. With version 1.1, I've done a little cleanup and some better documentation.
If you used the 1.0 version, you will need to be aware that I renamed CLIPBRD to PASTEIT. Ever since I wrote the original version, I realized I used the wrong terminology. It was really putting up a Paste Area, not a clipboard.
The CLIPBRD function in version 1.1 is brand new. Like most platforms that have a way to copy and paste, you can now see the contents of the Clip Board.
This application requires that your Systems Programmer (that installed ISPF) copy the IBM-supplied ISRCUT and ISRPASTE edit macro from the ISPF sample library to either your //SYSPROC or //SYSEXEC file concatenation. The IBM ISPF sample library on my system (OS/390 1.2) is called ISP.SISPSAMP. Some shops call this SYS1.ISP.SISPSAMP.

ISRCUT is usually renamed to CUT and ISRPASTE is usally renamed to PASTE.
The MVS mainframe is the only platform that I know of that calls the COPY function a CUT. On other platforms the functions are called COPY&PASTE and not CUT&PASTE.

Future:

I heard at the last SHARE that IBM will be adding a really cool Clip Board function to a future ISPF. I don't know if they will have a Paste Area function but their Clip Board sounds like it will blow ISRCUT and ISRPASTE away!

The software downloadable from this page is © 1997-2000 by David Alcock. This software is provided on an asis basis and no warranty is provided. Use at your own risk

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