Use existing ISPF profiles

By default, the ISPF Gateway creates a temporary ISPF profile for the TSO Commands service. However, you can instruct the ISPF Gateway z to use a copy of an existing ISPF profile. The key here is the _RSE_ISPF_OPTS statement in rse.env.

#_RSE_ISPF_OPTS="$_RSE_ISPF_OPTS&ISPPROF=&SYSUID..ISPPROF"

Uncomment the statement (remove the leading number sign (#) character) and provide the fully qualified data set name of the existing ISPF profile to use this facility.

The following variables can be used in the data set name:

&SYSUID. to substitute the developer's user ID
&SYSPREF. to substitute the developer's TSO prefix
&SYSNAME. to substitute the system name as specified in the IEASYMxx parmlib member

Note:

If the data set name passed in “ISPPROF” is invalid, a temporary, empty ISPF profile is used instead.
The ISPF profile (both temporary and copied) is deleted at the end of the session. Changes made to the profile are not merged into the existing ISPF profile.