FSE+™
Product Overview
FSE+™ is a high performance editor,
data set manager, file list and job
output previewer facility for the
TSO and VTAM Multi-User Platform (MUP)
environments. FSE+™'s GUI is ideally
suited to users who need an easy to
use yet highly functional editor.
Infrequent edit users also benefit
from FSE+™'s design. For example,
for those hard to remember subcommands
such as "Find" and "Change",
FSE+™ provides a simple fill-in-the-blanks
menu. You need only enter "Find
?" or "Change ?" and
a menu of optional items is displayed.
Long before IBM's ISPF was developed,
FSE+™ was being used by aerospace
engineers at Boeing, Pratt & Whitney,
Grumman and others to design airframe
and engine simulation software. These
engineers are the type of users who
are not interested in the subtleties
of data editing or wading through
complicated software manuals. They
want to logon, edit their files and
log off with minimal cost and hassle.
They demanded a KISS approach to editing
and FSE+™ delivered just that.
With IBM making it impossible to have
an MVS system without ISPF (something
is not quite right about that), why
do we keep on developing and marketing
FSE+™? A good question with an important
answer. First of all we have a large
number of FSE+™ users and they deserve
to be supported. To these loyal users,
FSE+™ is synonymous with data editing.
To other customers FSE+™ provides
a low cost, high performance alternative
to TSO. When executed under our VTAM
MUP™, several times as many clients
can be supported compared with the
TSO/ISPF environment. So next time
your TSO performance is poor, consider
FSE+™. Moving those users that edit
and submit jobs to FSE+™/VTAM MUP™
can save you time and money.
With so many ISPF bigots entering
the marketplace, we decided to add
an ISPF mode to FSE+™. The ISPF
mode allows FSE+™ to look like ISPF
but perform like FSE+™. We even
have some universities using FSE+™
to train users for ISPF.
FSE+™ contains four major components:
FSE (Edit), DSM, LIST (Browse) and
LISTJES. FSE (Edit) The FSE editor
provides virtual storage editing
of sequential files, PDS and PDS/E
members.
Y2K Compliant
FSE+™ is fully Y2K compliant. All
references to dates use 4 digit
year values so you will not have
any problems going to the next millennium.
The software has been fully tested
by our customers under their Y2K
field conditions.
Features
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Multiple users per address space
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Autosave
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Block
COPY, MOVE and DELETE
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Carousel
editing (edit up to 32 files concurrently)
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Cut
and Paste (from any file to any
file in the carousel)
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Data
conversion (EBCDIC to and from
ASCII, uppercase to and from lowercase)
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Disk
overflow (edit files of nearly
unlimited size)
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Edit
files with LRECL up to 32760
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Edit
files spread across multiple volumes
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Edit
uncataloged files
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File
compression (in-storage) minimizes
virtual storage usage
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File
locking
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FIND
NOT
Hex editing
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Merge
facility
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Shift
data within records
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User
exits
DSM™ (Data Set Manager)
DSM™ provides a full screen window
to the user's catalog or any catalog
prefix. Data set names and PDS member
names are displayed with an input
area for command entry. Find and
Find Not commands are provided to
display subsets of data set or PDS
member names.
The following data set and PDS
member commands are supported:
