Display only active sessions in TPX menu

Products

• Teleview
• TELEVIEW- PACKAGE
• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

For better switching between active sessions it would be better to have only the active sessions displayed on the menu.

Moreover it would also be useful to have the possibility to select  the sessions like 'display only the TSO sessions' on the menu.

Environment

Component: TPX-Session Management-Access Management package

Resolution

There is no standard way to do this but it can be achieved with the TPX Command Exit in some way.

Please review the TPX Command Exit.

*  THIS SAMPLE EXIT IMPLEMENTS FOLLOWING FUNCTIONS IN POINT 4:        *
*                                                                     *
*  - CHANGE PF3 ENTERED FROM THE MENU INTO /F COMMAND                 *
*                                                                     *
*  - IMPLEMENTS 2 NEW COMMANDS FROM MENU:                             *
*                                                                     *
*    'SS' - SHOW SESSION ID                                           *
*    'SD' - SHOW SESSION DESCRIPTION                                  *
*                                                                     *
*  EXAMPLES:                                                          *
*                                                                     *
*    - 'SS/SD ACT' WILL DISPLAY ONLY ACTIVE SESSIONS                  *
*    - 'SS/SD ALL' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS                          *
*                                                                     *
*    - 'SS TPX*' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS WITH SESSION ID            *
*                STARTING WITH STRING TPX                             *
*    - 'SS *TSO*' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS THAT HAVE STRING 'TSO'    *
*                 IN THE SESSION ID                                   *
*    - 'SD *PAYROLL* WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS THAT HAVE STRING       *
*                    'PAYROLL' IN THE SESSION DESCRIPTION             *
*    - 'SD %%%1*' WILL DISPLAY ALL SESSIONS THAT HAVE A '1' IN THE    *
*                 FORTH POSITION OF THE SESSION DESCRIPTION           *
*                                                                     *
*  THE EXIT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO PREDEFINE PF-KEYS WITH COMMANDS.       *
*  THIS IS DONE IN THE PFKTAB TABLE.                                  *
*                                                                     *
*  PREDEFINED EXAMPLES IN TABLE ARE:                                  *
*                                                                     *
*  DC    X'F4',X'07',AL1(SS)                                          *
*  DC    CL8'SS TSO*'            .PF4 = SHOW SESSIONS TSO*            *
*  DC    X'F5',X'07',AL1(SS)                                          *
*  DC    CL8'SS IMS*'            .PF5 = SHOW SESSIONS IMS*            *
*  DC    X'F6',X'04',AL1(SS)                                          *
*  DC    CL8'SS *'               .PF6 = DISPLAY ALL                   *
*  DC    X'F9',X'08',AL1(SS+ACT)                                      *
*  DC    CL8'SS *,ACT'           .PF9 = DISPLAY ONLY ACTIVE           *
*                                                                     *
*  ATTENTION: REGARDLESS OF THE SESSION SELECTION TPX WILL ALWAYS     *
*             DISPLAY THE ACTIVE SESSIONS TOO.                        *
*                                                                     *
*  THE EXIT CAN BE MODIFIED TO CHANGE THE ABOVE AS DESIRED OR         *
*  ENHANCE FURTHER.                                                   *