Lionel B. Dyck

Lionel B. Dyck has been working with the IBM mainframe since the later half of the last century of the last millennium. He started as a JCL Clerk in 1972 and within a few years was a junior systems programmer. It was then that he began to develop tools to automate repetitive tasks that he encountered as well as those of others he supported. Lionel is now a developer at Trident Services and continues to develop open-source tools for the mainframe community. You can find his work on the CBTTape in several files, at his website www.lbdsoftware.com, and on Github (github.com/lbdyck) where he is transitioning to from his website.

Using ISPF Edit Labels for Fun and Enhanced Productivity

Sep 29, 2023 | Mainframe

Quoting from the IBM z/OS ISPF Edit and Edit Macros (SC19-3621-50): A label is an alphabetic character string used to name lines or strings of data for easy reference. Because labels remain with the lines to which they are assigned, they are especially useful in...