On many of the list panels shown in Figure 1, you can enter SAVE on the command line to save the list to a data set. The saved data set contains the list panel title, column headings, and all of the rows in the list (not just those in the current scroll area of the panel). This is useful if you want to use the list as a report or as input to other programs. For example, you could use the z/OS® compare utility SuperC to compare two versions of a list that you saved at different times, or you could transfer the saved list to a PC, and then open it in a spreadsheet application.
Here is the format of the SAVE command:
.-ispf_list_data_set_name---------. >>-SAVE--+---------------------------------+------------------->< +-user_data_set_name--------------+ '-'fully_qualified_data_set_name'-'
If you enter SAVE without specifying a data set name, then the list is saved to your ISPF list data set.
If you specify a data set name enclosed in single quotes, then the list is saved to that fully qualified data set name.
If you omit the enclosing single quotes, then CICS® Configuration Manager prepends your TSO PREFIX value (typically, your user ID) as the high-level qualifier of the data set name.
In any case, the data set is overwritten if it already exists, or created if it does not exist.