TASID: System information and a whole lot more

Current version 5.08

The only change in 5.08: Fixed initiator list for z/OS 1.4
LPAR info is still not available (and may be removed soon).

A more recent version of TASID, now maintained by the ISPF development group in Perth, Australia, is available at the IBM web site
Changes include fixes for z/OS 1.6 and 1.7

This page is part of the ISPF and z/OS Tools and Toys Page. If you got here by a direct link to this page, please feel free to look around at the rest of the site.  Descriptions of what's changed in TASID can be found in the What's New page.

Here are the latest copies of the TASID install files. TASID is distributed in .ZIP format. You only need one of the two versions available here. Either version is about a 216Kb download.

A description of TASID is available at the IBM web site .
I've also provided a page of fast loading screen samples (about 100K of download in 1 page).

TASID options 2, 3, and 6 are very similar to the ISRDDN program shipped with ISPF.  Many of the latest features in these options are described in the ISRDDN documentation. Some of the features described there are already in TASID but are not yet available in ISRDDN.  (The PDF version requires the free Acrobat reader from Adobe). 

tasid.zip

 The version with separate panel and load libraries. Ever so slightly harder to install, but starts up faster.

To install this, create the load module and panel library according to the installation instructions in the README file. Then allocate the panel library to ISPPLIB and the load library to ISPLLIB, or STEPLIB, or Linklist or LPA.  From an ISPF command line type TSO TASID to start the program.

If you don't have access to the allocations, use a CLIST like this:

ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPPLIB DATASET ID('NADEL.TASID.PANELS') STACK
ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPLLIB DATASET ID('NADEL.TASID.LOAD') STACK
ISPEXEC SELECT PGM(TASID) NEWAPPL(ISR) PASSLIB
ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPPLIB
ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPLLIB

tasid0.zip

 The version with the panels built into the load module. Very easy to install, takes a little longer to start.

To start this version, just create the load module and either place it in one of the places listed above, or simply use the TSO CALL statement, similar to:

 Option ===> TSO CALL 'NADEL.TASID.LOAD(TASID)'

or

 Option ===> TSO CALL TASID(TASID)

With this version, you can also just copy the load module to an accessible load module and type TSO TASID to start the program.