"You could be charging for this instead of giving it away free." Andy Waddelow, Maxima

For use on IBM Mainframe operating systems, SELCOPY/i (CBL Interactive environment) provides users with a suite of powerful software tools.

SELCOPY/i is not a separately licensable product but is provided as an integral part of the SELCOPY and CBLVCAT software products.

Features of SELCOPY/i include:

• Windowed environment when coupled with 62 line x 160 column (or even greater) 3270 sessions, provides multiple concurrent displays, with virtually infinite flexibilty.
  
  SELCOPY/i will exploit the large screen dimensions available via modern 3270 emulators, in effect creating a "Mainframe Desktop".

• Integrated text file editor with modes for both ISPF and XEDIT (KEDIT) compatibility, within a Windows-style Multiple Document Interface (MDI).
  
  Features of both ISPF and XEDIT modes always available.

• Integrated structured file editor (SDE) supporting simultaneous display of multiple record types, multiple views/view-types, SQL-style SELECT/WHERE as well as natural ISPF-style edit features.
  
  Currently supports record mapping via COBOL and PL/1 copybooks, as well as its own, very flexible, direct syntax.

• Full edit (including record insert/delete) for large sequential datasets, regardless of the user's region size.

• Sophisticated VSAM (KSDS/ESDS/RRDS/VRDS) dataset support.

• SELCOPY/Debug environmemt which allows the user to step through control statements, set break points and display changes to workarea storage, @ pointers, etc.

• Interactive CBLVCAT execution which allows the user to generate "on the fly" reports of VTOC/Catalog contents and IDCAMS tuning recommendations for VSAM data sets.

• DB/2 SQL and IDCAMS interactive facilities.

• File-Search/Update facility, supporting multiple file-masks, copybook overlay, and multiple FIND/CHANGE with optional Update-in-Place.
  
  SQL-style SELECT/WHERE provides additional filtering.
  
  

• REXX macro support.

• Unique 'Command-Centre' system allows users to group, annotate, and then execute frequently used commands with a single key-depression.
  
  Issue commands directly to TSO or ISPF, to invoke any integrated feature of SELCOPY/i, or directly edit/view/list favourite datasets.
  
  System-symbols, user defined, and SELCOPY/i standard variables may be embedded in any command.
  
  Navigable and modifiable using your familiar editor interface.

• Disaster Recovery: SELCOPY/i will run under VTAM without ISPF or TSO, still providing a full-function editor, and job-submission.

• System navigation through DASD, VTOC, Dataset, Library, HFS/ZFS and ALLOCated file list windows, each with extended functionality (copy/rename/delete/edit/view etc), search, subset and intuitive drill-down capability.

• Navigation improved by direct access to any list window via parameter driven command-line interface, typically stored in 'command-centre' groups for point-and-shoot.

• List window information (Dataset, Library lists etc) available to REXX macros, providing for customisable commands, and intelligent procedures.

• Dataset allocation and VSAM file definition dialogs.
  Built-in ALLOC command for when TSO is not available.

• 'Save as ..', or fresh edit, for new (unallocated) datasets. First save automatically triggers dataset-allocation/VSAM-definition dialog.

• Executes as an ISPF application, natively under TSO/E or VM/CMS, and as a VTAM application under z/OS (MVS) or VSE.