Saving in View Mode

Save the changes in VIEW mode

It must have often happened with you that  you were making changes to a member
and once you try to save it, MVS prompts you that you are in the VIEW mode
and you can't save the changes.

Personally speaking this has happened with me couple of times and it really was very
disappointing to lose so many changes.

But Yeah MVS is not that cruel, this is a warning so that you dont un knowingly make
changes to a dataset.

There is a way out by which you can still save your changes.

Step 1:

In the command line give the following command

    REPLACE .ZF .ZL
    
    Where .ZF is a standard name for label for first line
          .ZL is a standard name for label for last line
         
    This means I want to cover everything between these two lines,
    i.e whole stuff.
    
    
Step 2:

In the "Edit/View Replace" Dialog give the dataset name.
Note if you want to save the changes to the original dataset
then give its name or else you can give another name to save
it to a different dataset.

 

 

Comments

You can Also use command VREP..