Concatenate the dialog libraries

Table 1 lists the SMP/E dialog libraries needed to concatenate with ISPF libraries To use the dialogs, concatenate these libraries in a TSO logon procedure or in a CLIST. Here are some recommendations for concatenating the libraries:

There are two sets of dialog libraries for SMP/E: one for English and one for Japanese. You can include the libraries for only one of these features in a given logon procedure or CLIST. If you want to be able to use both features on the same system, you need a logon procedure or CLIST for each feature. To switch from one feature to the other, you have to exit ISPF, run the procedure or CLIST for the other feature, and get back into ISPF.
Do not use the ISPF LIBDEF service to concatenate the following libraries. Instead, use either the TSO ALLOCATE command or DD statements and JCL.
- Dialog CLISTs (GIM.SGIMCLS0): If you use LIBDEF, the CLISTs and EXECs in the data set cannot be executed.
- Dialog load module library (GIM.SGIMLMD0): If LIBDEF is used to concatenate the load module libraries, the SMP/E dialogs cannot find required load modules.

Table 1. ISPF libraries and related SMP/E target libraries
DDNAME	SMP/E library	Contents
SYSPROC	GIM.SGIMCLS0	Dialog CLISTs
ISPLLIB	GIM.SGIMLMD0	Dialog load modules
ISPMLIB	GIM.SGIMMENU	Dialog messages
ISPPLIB	GIM.SGIMPENU	Dialog panels
ISPSLIB	GIM.SGIMSENU	Skeleton JCL procedures
ISPTLIB	GIM.SGIMTENU (see Note 1)	Table input library
ISPCTL1	(see Note 2)	Generated JCL
ISPCTL2	(see Note 2)	Generated JCL
SMPTABL	A user-defined name (see Note 3)	SMP/E table library

Note:

Include GIM.SGIMTENU and the SMPTABL data set in the ISPTLIB concatenation.
Use the ISPCTL1 and ISPCTL2 files to generate JCL for submitted SMP/E jobs. The SMP/E job submit facility lets you browse and edit this JCL. You can omit these files from your logon procedure and let ISPF automatically allocate them as needed.
To save the input JCL generated by the dialogs, either:
- Use EDIT CREATE while in the generated JCL to save it in another (permanent) data set, or
- Allocate a permanent sequential data set to ISPCTL1 (LRECL=80, RECFM=FB) before you enter the SMP/E dialogs.
Allocate a single, installation-wide table data set to the ISPTLIB and SMPTABL DD statements.
- SMP/E uses this table data set to save process status information for the SYSMOD management dialogs.
- The data set must be a partitioned data set (LRECL=80, RECFM=FB). Because the data set is also in the concatenation of ISPTLIB, make the block size compatible with the block size of the corresponding ISPF data sets.
- Ensure all users of the SMP/E dialogs have the appropriate access defined in your security product to update this table data set.
- For more information about the SMPTABL data set, see SMPTABL space allocation.