These fields set the defaults for new Edit Profiles created by any user. For information about the values for each field, refer to the z/OS ISPF Edit and Edit Macros . These processing rules apply:

• Some items in this section of the ISPF Configuration table can be forced. The default for all of the FORCE fields is NO. To force users to use the value specified, change the FORCE field value to YES. If a user then attempts to change one of the forced settings from within the editor an error message is displayed.
• If the user has a ZDEFAULT Edit profile or if a ZEDFAULT profile exists in the ISPTLIB concatenation, then these settings have no effect except for those options that are forced.
• If a user has no ZDEFAULT profile and no ZDEFAULT profile exists in ISPTLIB these settings are used to create all new profiles. They have no effect on existing profiles.
• The ZDEFAULT profile is no longer automatically created the first time a user enters the editor, as it was in releases of ISPF before OS/390® Release 5.0. Profiles used with previous versions might contain a ZDEFAULT profile, and it is honored. Users can also specifically create a ZEDFAULT profile so that they can establish their own defaults.

STATS

Control whether the editor maintains ISPF statistics for PDS members. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

FORCE_STATS

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

STATS_EXT_ENABLED

Allows you to use STATS EXT command, extended stats option on reset member statistics panels, and LM services EXT option to cause extended statistics to be created.

The default is NO.

STATS_EXT

Control whether the editor maintains ISPF statistics for PDS members. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

FORCE_STATS_EXT

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

RECOVERY

Determines whether the editor maintains its recovery file to keep track of the edit session, making it possible for users to recover from system failures. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

FORCE_RECOVERY

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

RECOVERY_WARNING_MESSAGE

Determines whether the editor should warn users when they enter an edit session with RECOVERY set OFF. Valid values are WARN and NOWARN.

The default is WARN.

FORCE_RECOVERY_WARNING_MESSAGE

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

SETUNDO

Determines whether the UNDO command will be available in Edit. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

FORCE_SETUNDO

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

PACK

Determines whether the editor will save data in packed or unpacked format. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

FORCE_PACK

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

IMACRO

Specifies the sitewide initial macro to be run for all users.

The default is NONE (no macro).

FORCE_IMACRO

Force the specified value.

The default is NO.

CAPS

Determines whether the editor automatically rolls text to uppercase. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

NOTE

Determines whether the editor displays ==NOTE== lines when the Edit MODEL command is used. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

HEX

Determines whether the edit data is displayed in hex mode.

• ON
• OFF
• VERT
• DATA

The default is OFF.

NULLS

Determines whether trailing spaces on edit data are written to the screen as nulls or blanks.

• STD
• ALL
• OFF

The default is STD.

DISPLAY_SEQUENCE_NUMBERS

Determines whether the editor will maintain sequence numbers. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

COBOL_NUMBERS

Determines whether the sequence numbers should be maintained in COBOL format (in columns 1-6). Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

STANDARD_NUMBERS

Determines whether the sequence numbers should be maintained in standard format (in columns 1-8 for variable data, the last 8 columns for fixed data). Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

AUTONUM

Determines whether the editor automatically renumbers edit data. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

AUTOLIST

Determines whether the editor writes the edit data to the ISPF LIST data set when a user ends an edit session in which data has been changed or saved. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

PROFILE

Determines whether an edit profile can be deleted if it is the least recently used profile. Specify LOCK to prevent profiles from being deleted. Valid values are LOCK and UNLOCK.

The default is UNLOCK.

AUTOSAVE

Determines whether the editor automatically saves changes when the END command is entered. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

AUTOSAVE_PROMPT

Determines whether the editor prompts the user to have the data changes saved of AUTOSAVE is OFF and the END command is entered. Valid values are PROMPT and NOPROMPT.

The default is PROMPT.

HILITE

Determines whether the editor uses color to highlight the data being edited. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

HILITE_DOLOGIC

Determines whether editor highlighting should use color to match DO/END statements. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

HILITE_IFLOGIC

Determines whether editor highlighting should use color to match IF/ELSE statements. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

HILITE_PAREN

Determines whether editor highlighting should use color to match open and close parentheses. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is OFF.

HILITE_FIND

Determines whether editor highlighting should use color to highlight the target of the FIND command. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

HILITE_CURSOR

Determines whether editor highlighting should use color to highlight current cursor location. Valid values are ON and OFF.

The default is ON.

HILITE_LANGUAGE

The default language to be used by edit highlighting. Valid values are:

1

Automatic language determination

2

Assembler

3

PL/I

4

COBOL

5

Pascal

6

C

7

BookMaster®

8

Rexx

9

ISPF Panel language

10

ISPF Skeleton language

11

JCL

12

ISPF Dialog Tag Language (DTL)

13

Other (CLIST, etc.)

14

Default (no highlighting)

15

PL/X

16

IDL

17

SuperC Listing

18

HTML

19

XML

The default is 1.

HILITE_MARGIN_C

Determines the left and right margins to be used by edit highlighting when processing C statements. Values are specified in the form (left-margin,right-margin). Although the IBM® C/C++ compiler supports left and right margins in the range 1 to 32760, ISPF only supports highlighting data sets up to a record length of 255. Therefore, the left-margin must be between 1 and 254 and the right-margin must be between 1 and 255.

You can specify (*,*) to use the default margins defined for the language. The default left-margin is 1. The default right-margin is the lesser of 255 and the last input column. The last input column is 8 less than the record length when the data set has fixed records and is in standard number mode; otherwise it is the same as the record length.

HILITE_MARGIN_PLI

Determines the left and right margins to be used by edit highlighting when processing PL/I statements. Values are specified in the form (left-margin,right-margin). left-margin must be between 1 and 100. right-margin must be between 1 and 200.

You can specify (*,*) to use the default margins defined for the language. The default left-margin is 2. The default right-margin is the lesser of 200 and the last input column. The last input column is 8 less than the record length when the data set has fixed records and is in standard number mode; otherwise it is the same as the record length.

HILITE_MARGIN_PLX

Determines the left and right margins to be used by edit highlighting when processing PL/X statements. Values are specified in the form (left-margin,right-margin). left-margin must be between 1 and 65. right-margin must be between 15 and 80.

You can specify (*,*) to use the default margins defined for the language. The default left-margin is 2. The default right-margin is the lesser of 80 and the last input column. The last input column is 8 less than the record length when the data set has fixed records and is in standard number mode; otherwise it is the same as the record length.