Developing Dialog Manager Applications in z/OS
- Recommended Duration:
- 5 Days
- Version
- TSO/E REXX and/or CLIST.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to build and maintain applications based on IBM's z/OS Dialog Manager (ISPF).
- Audience
- Applications and systems programmers, who need to know how to create, maintain, and support Dialog Manager applications.
- Prerequisites
- At the very least, the student entering this course should have experience in using ISPF/PDF, especially the editor and in coding either TSO REXX execs or TSO CLISTs.
- Major Topics
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- Dialog variables and variable pools, includnig variables services
- Panel definition language and panel processing logic
- LIBDEF service
- DISPLAY service
- Message services
- Library Access services (LM...)
- Pop-up windows
- Scrollable fields
- SELECT service and menus
- Dialog Test
- CONTROL services
- Browse, Edit, and View interfaces
- Help panels and tutorial services
- ISPF tables and table services
- ISPF table display services
- File tailoring services and skeletons
- Obtaining data set information
- Command tables and user-written commands
- Introduction to CUA (Common User Access) standards
- Creating and using action bars
- Introduction to Dialog Tag Language (DTL)
- Creating keylists using DTL
- Installing ISPF applications
- Exercises
- There are 14 standard and one optional hands-on exercises.