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 The EXPERT utility scans SLSS.WORK.LIST(EXPERT) and displays all the lines in
 which the argument string passed at invocation time is found.

 SLSS.WORK.LIST(EXPERT) contains a list of who is an "expert" or considers
 themselves knowledgeable about a specific technical dicipline or specific type
 of hardware/software.

 What the EXPERT utility allows you to do is to type in the name of a given
 technical dicipline or software (e.g. CICS, JCL, COBOL, TSO, etc.), and a list
 of those people who consider themselves at least knowledgeable about that
 subject area will be displayed to you.  You could also use EXPERT in a
 "converse" way and type in a name (e.g. Nuechterlein) and find out what that
 person is an expert in.

 You may also maintain your own personal expert list in addition to the common
 one if you wish.  If you have a sequential 80 byte dataset named
 yourtsouserid.EXPERT, the EXPERT utility will scan it as well as the one in
 SLSS.WORK.LIST(EXPERT).

 It should also be noted that EXPERT will ignore lines with a "*" in column one
 in both the common and personal expert lists.  This allows for "commenting" or
 "annotateing" of these lists as you desire.

 To invoke EXPERT, you can type TSO EXPERT xxxxxx (where "xxxxxx" is the subject
 matter you're interested in) at any ISPF command line and press ENTER.  That's
 it.