Stephen Linkin Houston Community College 15-Jan-07 © Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM 1 Use ISPF To Manage JCL Chapter 3

2 Objectives Applied objectives Use ISPF menus, PK keys, action bars, and commands to navigate through the ISPF panels. Use ISPF facilities to create a JCL member, submit it for background processing, and display the resulting job output. Knowledge objectives Describe the naming conventions for partitioned data sets. Explain the effect of the library type qualifier in a PDS name when youre working in the ISPF editor. Distinguish between a job name and a job identifier. Name two ISPF facilities you can use to work with jobs and job output. Name three SDSF queues you can use to check on a job youve submitted. Describe the use of action characters in SDSF panels.

3 Figure 3-01 Panel title Command Entry Menu Options PF Key Functions Nomenclature Of ISPF Panel Personal Data

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM4 Commonly Used Navigation Techniques CommandStarting panel Effect of command 3 Primary Option Menu Utility Selection panel 3.8Primary Option Menu Utility Selection panel/Outlist Utility panel =2 Current panel Primary Option Menu/Edit Entry panel =S.HCurrent panel Primary Option Menu/SDSF Menu/Held output queue 2;;S MM01A1 Primary Option Menu Edit Entry panel/PDS listing/ Select member MM01A1

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM5 Commonly Used PF Keys PF key Command Meaning PF1/13HelpDisplays the online tutorial or additional information on an error message. PF2/14SplitSplits the screen into two separate screens divided by a horizontal line. It can also be use to change the position of the screen split. PF3/15EndReturns to the previous panel. PF4/16ReturnReturns directly to the Primary Option Menu. PF7/19UpScrolls the display up. PF8/20DownScrolls the display down. PF10/22LeftScrolls the display to the left. PF11/23RightScrolls the display to the right.

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM6 Action bar facts Figure 3-03a An ISPF Panel With An Action Bar Action bar Pull-down menu for the Utilities item in the action bar

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM7 Rules for creating a PDS Creating A Partitioned Data Set

8 Figure 3-05 The Edit Entry Panel

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM9 Figure 3-06a The Primary Edit Panel For A New Data Set Heading area Line command area Screen window

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM10 Basic Primary Edit Panel Line Commands I/InInsert one or n lines following this line. D/Dn/DDDelete this line, n lines beginning with this line, or the block of lines beginning and ending with DD. R/Rn/RR/RRnRepeat this line or the block of lines beginning and ending with RR one or n times. C/Cn/CCCopy this line one or n times, or copy the block of lines beginning and ending with CC. M/Mn/MMMove this line one or n times, or move the block of lines beginning and ending with MM. A/AnCopy or move lines one or n times after this line. B/BnCopy or move lines one or n times before this line. Figure 3-07c

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM11 Primary Edit Panel Primary Commands LOCATE line-number FIND string. CHANGE string-1 string-2 [ALL] COPY member-name PROFILE RECOVERY [ON | OFF] UNDO SAVE END (PF3/15) RETURN (PF4/16) CANCEL

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM12 Submitting A Job From The Editor

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM13 Figure 3-09a SDSF Primary Option Menu

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM14 Figure 3-10a The SDSF Status Panel ?Displays a list of the output data sets for a job. SDisplays one or more output data sets. HHolds a job. AReleases a held job. OReleases held output and makes it available for printing. CCancels a job. PPurges a job and its output.

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM15 Figure 3-11a The SDSF Held Output Queue ?Displays a list of the output data sets for a job. SDisplays one or more output data sets. OReleases output and makes it available for printing. PPurges output data sets.

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM16 Figure 3-12 An SDSF Browse Panel That Displays Job Output

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM17 Figure 3-13a The OUTLIST Utility entry panel

© Mike Murach & Associates, HCC, IBM18 End Presentation