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If DB2 is not running, you can't work on parm tables! They don't exist

They don't exist outside the DB unless you code them as SQL INSERT and use "Process EPDM Statements" to apply them. See 'Executing log collector stmts' in Language Guide & Ref. Even then you have to have DB2 up.

*** Have developed a REXX exec that reads the tables and turns the data into EPDM UPDATE/DEFINE commands that can be executed in batch or via dailog Other/Process EPDM Stmts. Same applies to table defs.

*** There exists a dialog capability to save the SQL for a table. The result is nothing like as good as building a member (no comments).

USEFUL ability to edit parm tables with ISPF! Unfortunately, it reapplies all the data regardless of whether you have made changes. I discovered this when I had looked at, but not changed, a 27,000-line lookup table.

*** How to interrupt such a process: ISPF CANcel works.