Is it Possible to Review and Repeat Previously Typed Commands in Roscoe?

Products

• Roscoe

Issue/Introduction

How to Use the Command Buffer to Recall and Execute Previously Entered Roscoe Commands

 

Environment

Release: 6.0
Component: ROSCOE

Resolution

To recall a command back to the command line

• Enter STATUS COMMAND on the Roscoe command line to get a list of the commands, monitor commands and RPFs you just executed. [Optional]
• Type the displayed number preceded by the + sign.  
• Or-- just type + followed by the number of commands you want to go back.
• Then hit enter to execute the command.

For example:

This is sample output from STATUS COMMAND with duplicate commands displayed. This is the default.

COMMAND BUFFER IS 256 BYTES LONG AND CONTAINS 16 COMMANDS (SAVE DUPS = Y)

1. STATUS COMMAND
2. RPF.STOPPOP
3. A D your.roscoe.SAMPJCL(MRO6030)
4. DIS
5. DIS
6. DIS
7. DIS
8. DIS
9. DIS
10. DIS

To use the recall feature, for example, type +3

This will recall

A D your.roscoe.SAMPJCL(MRO6030) to the Roscoe command line. Hit enter to execute it.

 

Additional Information

If you do not want to display duplicate commands, you can change this setting by issuing the STA(TUS) SESSION command. On the right hand side of the screen there is a parameter DUCPR, simply overtype this entry with an "N" or NO..

                             ROSCOE SESSION STATUS 
  ALLRECALL  ==> NOWAIT                             ATTACH     ==> NOPAUSE 
  AUTOFF     ==> 240  ON                            AUTOINDENT ==> OFF 
  AUTOINSERT ==> 1    OFF                           AWS TRANS  ==> N 
  CHAR SET   ==> US ENGLISH                         CHAR TRANS ==> B 
  CMD LINE   ==> 3  1                               COPYDEST   ==> (NONE) 
  CURREC     ==> N/A                                DATE FMT   ==> AMERICAN  SHORT 
  DELIMITER  ==> &                                  DSNCMLST   ==> ERROR 
  DSNCNT     ==> 100000                             DSNEMPTY   ==> OFF 
  DSNRECALL  ==> NOWAIT                             DUPCR      ==> YES     <======