Restrictions

ISPF edit macros that can be used as tools of type "Execute ISPF Edit Macro" have the following restrictions:

• The ISPF edit macro may not contain any ISPF panel processing.
• ISPF messages issued from the called ISPF edit macro are not displayed in the client.
• INFOLINEs, NOTELINEs or MSGLINEs generated by the called ISPF edit macro are not displayed in the Eclipse editor.
• Commands which control the ISPF edit session (like save, end, cancel) are not supported.
• ISPF-Edit-Commands with dependencies to the original dataset (like create, replace, copy, move) are not fully supported or will not work as expected. Please note that the Edit Macro is executed on a temporary dataset.