PASTE—Move or Copy Lines from Clipboard

The PASTE macro command moves or copies lines from a clipboard into an edit session.

Syntax

Macro command syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramISREDITPASTEDEFAULTclipboard_nameAFTERBEFORElinenumlabelDELETEKEEPASIS
clipboardname
The name of the clipboard to use. If you omit this parameter, the ISPF default clipboard (named DEFAULT) is used. You can define up to ten additional clipboards. The size of the clipboards and number of clipboards might be limited by installation defaults.
BEFORE
The destination of the data that is being transferred from the clipboard. BEFORE copies the data before the specified label linenum or label.
AFTER
The destination of the data that is being transferred from the clipboard. AFTER copies the data after the specified label linenum or label.
linenum
A relative line number identifying the line after, or before, which the lines from the clipboard are copied or moved.
label
A label identifying the line after, or before, which the lines from the clipboard are copied or moved.
KEEP
Records are copied and not removed from the clipboard.
DELETE
Records are moved and deleted from the clipboard.
ASIS
The PASTE command determines the character set of the data in the clipboard. If this is different to the character set being used for the file being edited an automatic conversion occurs for the data being pasted into the file.

If ASIS is specified, then the automatic conversion does not take place.

Description

PASTE copies or moves lines from a specified clipboard to the current edit session. If lines in the clipboard are longer than the lines in the edit session, they are truncated.

The portion of the line that is saved in the clipboard is only the data portion of the line. Line numbers are not saved. If the data was CUT from a data set that had sequence numbers and is PASTEd into an edit session without sequence numbers, or if it was CUT from a data set without sequence numbers and PASTEd into a session with sequence numbers, some shifting of data is likely to occur.

Return codes

0
Normal completion
12
Parameter error. Clipboard is empty or does not exist.
20
Severe error

Examples

To paste data from the default clipboard to the line after the last line in the edit session: 
ISREDIT PASTE AFTER .ZLAST DELETE
To paste data from the default clipboard to the line after the first line in the edit session, without clearing the contents of the clipboard: 
ISREDIT PASTE AFTER .ZFIRST KEEP