SelectJCL is designed to help eliminate the need to drag a selection window across the screen. For example, a single right-click with the mouse positioned in the left half of the word TESTID1, produced the following selection:
A right-click on the left half of the word JCL, picked out this TSO-style dataset name:
Clicking at various locations on the same line will produce other predictable results. Typically, clicking the left half of a word will return that word plus everything in the parameter that follows. Clicking the right half of a word will return only that word. See the chart below for additional examples:
| To select the string below: |
Use SelectJCL at this location: |
| DSN=TESTID1.JCL.CNTL(IDCAMS) |
Left half of the word DSN |
| DSN |
Right half of the word DSN |
| DSN=TESTID1 |
Click the = sign |
| TESTID1.JCL.CNTL(IDCAMS) |
Left half of the word TESTID1 |
| TESTID1.JCL.CNTL |
Click any dot in the datasetname |
| JCL.CNTL(IDCAMS) |
Left half of the word JCL |
| JCL |
Right half of the word JCL |
| CNTL(IDCAMS) |
Left half of the word CNTL |
| CNTL |
Right half of the word CNTL |
| (IDCAMS) |
Click the left parenthesis |
| IDCAMS |
Click any part of the word IDCAMS |
| DISP=SHR |
Left half of the word DISP |
| DISP |
Right half of the word DISP |
| SHR |
Any part of the word SHR |
SelectJCL also has many other abilities built into it, such as the ability to return all parameters between parenthesis or ticks, with or without the surrounding characters. This can save a lot of the tedious mouse-oriented selection we usually do today.
With your right-mouse single-click set to SelectJCL, and the double-click set to Copy, you can right-double-click at various locations on the screen, copying various pieces of text into multiple copy buffers for later use, with minimal dragging. |
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