INTERACTIVE SERVICE PRODUCTIVITY FACILITY

When you logon into mainframes you will see one menu called ISPF menu. In TSO i explained how to logon. Once TSO displays its READY message you can invoke ISPF two ways by entering ISPF command and not entering that command .In many installations, a TSO LOGON procedure is created to automatically invoke ISPF when you LOGON.In this case, the READY command will not appear and you do not have to enter ISPF command seperately . This menu has different options and this is the main screen from which you can be able to go to different options. This ISPF is the main working place from where you can do programs with JCL,COBOL,VSAM,CICS so here I am giving the options of ISPF and one more thing as for practicing in home software you can change few options but some of them are quiet standard. So what i am mentioning here are important .So go on reading..

• 0. SETTINGS - TERMINAL AND USER PARAMETES

• 1. VIEW - DISPLAY SOURCE DATA & LISTING

• 2. EDIT - CREATE OR CHANGE SOURCE DATA

• 3. UTILITIES - PERFORM UTILITY FUNCTIONS

• 4. FOREGROUND - INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE

PROCESSING

• 5. BATCH - SUBMIT JOB FOR LANGUAGE

PROCESSINNG

• 6. COMMAND - ENTER TSO COMMAND OR CL LIST

• 7. DIALOGTEST - PERFORM DIALOUGE TESTING

• 8. LM UTILITIES- PERFORM LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR

UTILITY FUNCTIONS

• 9. IBM PRODUCTS – ADDITIONAL IBM PROGRAM

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• 10. SCLM - SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION AND

LIBRARY MANAGER

• 11. WORKPLACE - ISPF

• 12. MORE

After 10^th option few options may vary.. like in companies generally from 11^th option they use tools option like ENDEVOR, Expeditor e.t.c here we can add few changes after that option. Like

• T TUTORIAL – DISPLAY INFORMATION ABOUT ISPF /PDF

• E EXIT - TERMINATE ISPF USING LOG AND LIST DEFAULTS

• C CHANGES – DISPLAY SUMMARY CHANGES FOR RELEASE

• S SDSF - SPOOL DISPLAY SEARCH FACILITY

I will explain in further topics about these options which we use mostly and here one option is there called "SDSF" this is an option where you can see your jobs in spool area. Spool area is nothing but where your list of submitted jobs are seen.Don't worry you can see all this topics in JCL and further modules.