Designed for: Applications programmers and operations analysts

Primary Objective: To produce ISPF dialogs

Introduction to ISPF
How ISPF works under MVS; libraries command procedures, panels, skeletons, messages, tables, etc.; how data is held in function pools, shared and profile pools; ISPF services: VPUT, VGET, DISPLAY, SELECT, BROWSE, EDIT; testing facilities.

Defining Panels
Storing panels in panel libraries; panel sections: )ATTR, )BODY, )MODEL, )INIT, )REINIT), )PROC, )END;  defining attributes for colours, input, output etc; layout of the screen; initialising and testing fields; refreshing fields; validating and processing data: VER, TRUNC, TRANS;  using the control variables: .ATTR, .CURSOR, .ZVARS, etc; menu panels, selecting another function; messages and message libraries; windows, help panels, tutorials.