# Short LIST DDM

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904 "2020-01-15T16:00:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Perry\_DuBard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Perry\_DuBard](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Perry_DuBard)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904/1 "2020-01-15T16:00:11Z")

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At the Natural command line I may enter LIST DDM PH-SCHEDULE, press enter, get the long list, and press PF4 for the short list.

Is there a command line COMMAND like LIST that will give the short list in one step?

LIST DDM PH-SCHEDULE works in batch mode too, in a JCL member as a launched job.

That’s where I’m headed with this other.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Ralph\_Zbrog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/ralph_zbrog/32/78_2.png) [@Ralph\_Zbrog](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ralph_Zbrog)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904/2 "2020-01-15T22:40:50Z")

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We all would like “LIST VIEW view-name S” to work like “SPLIT VIEW view-name S” does in the editor, but no such luck. I know of no such Natural function. Perhaps another Community member will chime in.

I got around this issue years ago by writing a utility to produce an in-line data area from a view by reading SYSDIC-EL by FIELD-SEQ to produce the field list you want.

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**Author:** ![Ralph\_Zbrog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/ralph_zbrog/32/78_2.png) [@Ralph\_Zbrog](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ralph_Zbrog)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904/3 "2020-01-17T07:23:56Z")

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There is a way to do this!

```auto
L V view-name SHORT
```

The trick is to use the keyword SHORT instead of the abbreviation S.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/short-list-ddm/206904/4 "2021-04-02T15:44:05Z")

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