Specifying Information in Input Fields

To fill out a selection entry panel, enter information in the input fields. As mentioned, some fields are mandatory and some are optional. When a selection entry panel is first used, ISMF displays default values in the mandatory fields. The optional fields are blank. ISMF online help describes each field.

The input fields on the selection entry panels hold their values from the last time you generated a list. Change an existing value by typing over it. Erase an existing value by spacing over it with blanks.

Use the CLEAR command to reset all fields on a selection entry panel to their default settings. Enter CLEAR on the command line in one of the following ways:

CLEAR PAGE: Clears the current page of the selection entry panel.
CLEAR PAGEx: Clears page x of the selection entry panel.
CLEAR ALL: Clears all pages of the selection entry panel.

Tip: CLEAR PAGE is the only valid CLEAR command that you can use for applications with only one selection entry panel page.