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How To Pass Parms To Ispf Edit Macro?

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On the command LINE in the editor, just use the name of the macro and list the PARAMETERS behind it. E.g. if you have a macro called FINDALL and it expects 3 parameters you would specify in the command line: FINDIT parm1 parm2 parm3. 

When you code the MACRO the first line should be like:

Address ISREDIT "MACRO (parm1 , parm2, parm3)"

Since you are working with REXX you could have used:

Address ISREDIT "MACRO ( parm )"

You then parse the parm like this:

Parse (UPPER) ARG parm parm1 parm2 parm3.

On the command line in the editor, just use the name of the macro and list the parameters behind it. E.g. if you have a macro called FINDALL and it expects 3 parameters you would specify in the command line: FINDIT parm1 parm2 parm3. 

When you code the MACRO the first line should be like:

Since you are working with REXX you could have used:

You then parse the parm like this:


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