Mainframe Utility: PROFUPDT

/* REXX ***************************************************************/
/* UTILITY: PROFUPDT                                                  */
/* AUTHOR: DAVID LEIGH                                                */
/* FUNCTION: THIS UTILITY ALLOWS YOU TO UPDATE AN ISPF PROFILE        */
/*           VARIABLE IN A PROFILE  WHICH YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY IN.   */
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ARG PROFNAME VAR VARVAL

PARSE VAR VAR 'VARIABLE(' VAR ')'
PARSE VAR VARVAL 'VALUE(' VARVAL ')'

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/* THIS CODE IS ADDED FOR BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH THE CALL OF    */
/* PROFUPDT FROM $F, $FB, $FE, ETC.  IT TAKES THE "'''" WHICH WAS PUT */
/* THERE TO PLACATE CLIST FOIBLES (WHEN PROFUPDT WAS A CLIST) AND     */
/* STRIPS IT BACK DOWN TO A SINGLE SET.                               */
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IF VAR = 'DMPDSN' & PROFNAME = 'FAXE' THEN
  IF POS("'''",VARVAL) = 1 THEN
    VARVAL = "'"STRIP(VARVAL,B,"'")"'"


ADDRESS ISPEXEC

"TBCREATE TEMPPASS NOWRITE REPLACE KEYS() NAMES(VAR VARVAL)"

"TBADD TEMPPASS"

"SELECT CMD(%SYNCVAR2) NEWAPPL("PROFNAME")"

EXIT
            

 PROFUPDT is essentially a subroutine type utility (i.e. it is best used as a
 "called" CLIST from another CLIST).  What PROFUPDT allows you to do is change
 or set the value of a variable in an ISPF profile pool for a profile that you
 are not currently in.   It takes as arguments, 1 positional variable in which
 you specify the "profile prefix", and 2 keyword variables in which you specify
 the variable to be updated and the value you want to assign to it.  A syntax
 example would be:

 %PROFUPDT FAXE VARIABLE(DMPDSN) VALUE(XYZ)

 In this example, "FAXE" is the profile prefix for the FILE-AID product,
 "DMPDSN" is the variable we want to update, and "XYZ" is the value we want
 "DMPDSN" to have.