Miscellaneous settings

MONITOR_EDIT_MACRO_COMMANDS

Should the ISPF Activity Monitoring Exit be invoked for ISREDIT commands invoked from an ISPF Edit Macro. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is NO.

ALLOW_SUBMIT_FROM_BROWSE

Should users be allowed to issue the SUBMIT command from with a Browse session. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is YES.

ALLOW_SUBMIT_FROM_VIEW

Should users be allowed to issue the SUBMIT command from with a View session. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is YES.

WARN_ON_RENAME_TO_GDG_NAME

Should a warning panel be displayed when a user attempts to rename a data set to a new name that matches the naming convention of a GDG generation. The renamed data set may become a valid generation if it matches the naming convention of an existing GDG data set. If that new generation causes the LIMIT parameter value specified when the GDG was defined to be exceeded, the system will take action based on the SCRATCH/NOSCRATCH and EMPTY/NOEMPTY parameters that were specified when the GDG was defined. This action may result in one or all of the existing generations being deleted or uncataloged. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is YES.

DEFAULT_EDIT/BROWSE/VIEW_MEMBER_LIST

Should option 3.4 (Data Set List utility) use the enhanced member list for the Edit, Browse and View actions. Performance is improved if the traditional member list ID used, but capability is improved using the enhanced member list. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is YES.

IS_VIEW_SUPPORTED

Should users be allowed to use the View function from option 1 or only the Browse function. Because it is based on ISPF Edit, View can impact system resource utilization. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is YES.

USE_ALTERNATE_PANEL_ISRTSOA

Should alternate ISPF Command Shell panel ISRTSOA be used in place of panel ISRTSO. ISRTSOA contains both an ISPF command line and a TSO command line, ISRTSO contains only one input field for both ISPF and TSO commands. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is NO.

PRINT_USING_ICF

Indicates whether foreground print requests should be processed using an ICF printer definition. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is NO.

DISALLOW_WILDCARDS_IN_HLQ

Indicates whether wildcards (* or %) are allowed in the high-level qualifier for data set list. Valid values are YES and NO.

The default is NO.

MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_SPLIT_SCREENS

Maximum number of separate logical screens a user can have active. The maximum value for this field is 32, and minimum value is 4.

The default is 8.

APPLID_FOR_USER_COMMAND_TABLE

The application ID for 1 to 3 user command tables. The application ID must be 1 to 4 alphanumeric or special characters, with the first character being either alphabetic or a special character. The application ID values can be specified in either of the formats:

User: to specify a single application ID.
(usr1) or (usr1,usr2) or (usr1,usr2,usr3): to specify 1 to 3 application IDs.

The default value is NONE (no user command tables).

In addition, a special format can be used to obtain the application ID from the current system name (ISPF dialog variable ZSYSID). The special format is:

*, *m, or *m:n.

As the system name can be up to 8 characters, m and n are the start and end positions within the system name used to determine the application ID for the user command tables. The values for m and n must be in the range 1 to 8, where m is less than or equal to n and the difference in their values is no more than 3.

The default value for m is 1. The default value for n is m+3, to a maximum value of 8.

Compatibility Issue:: For compatibility of the ISPF configuration options with previous releases, do not specify any of the special formats (*, *m, or *m:n) as either the first user or site application ID.

APPLID_FOR_SITE_COMMAND_TABLE

The application ID for 1 to 3 site command tables. The application ID must be 1 to 4 alphanumeric or special characters, with the first character being either alphabetic or a special character. The application ID values can be specified in either of the formats:

Site: to specify a single application ID.
(sit1) or (sit1,sit2) or (sit1,sit2,sit3): to specify 1 to 3 application IDs.

The default value is NONE (No site-wide command tables).

In addition, a special format can be used to obtain the application ID from the current system name (ISPF dialog variable ZSYSID). The special format is:

*, *m, or *m:n.

As the system name can be up to 8 characters, m and n are the start and end positions within the system name used to determine the application ID for the site command tables. The values for m and n must be in the range 1 to 8, where m is less than or equal to n and the difference in their values is no more than 3.

The default value for m is 1. The default value for n is m+3, to a maximum value of 8.

Compatibility Issue:: For compatibility of the ISPF configuration options with previous releases, do not specify any of the special formats (*, *m, or *m:n) as either the first user or site application ID.

SITE_COMMAND_TABLE_SEARCH_ORDER

Determines whether the site-wide command tables are searched before or after the default ISP command table. Valid values are AFTER and BEFORE.

The default is BEFORE.

Depending on this setting, the search order will be:

Table 1. Search order details
Search Order = BEFORE	Search Order = AFTER
1. Application	1. Application
2. USER (1 to 3)	2. USER (1 to 3)
3. SITE (1 to 3)	3. System
4. System	4. SITE (1 to 3)

YEAR_2000_SLIDING_RULE

The cutoff value used by ISPF to determine whether a 2-character year date specified to ISPF should be considered a 19xx or 20xx date. Values less than or equal to this date will be considered 20xx, values greater will be considered 19xx. Value can be an absolute number or a number preceded by a minus sign to indicate the cutoff should be the specified number of years before the current year. For example, specifying 72 indicates that any 2-character year less than or equal to 72 should be considered 20xx, anything greater should be 19xx. Specifying -40 (assuming the current year is 1999) will yield a cutoff value of 59.

The default is 65.

SHOW_ENQ_DISPLAYS

Used to indicate that users should not be able to see who has existing data set ENQs when they press the help key or when they use the ISRDDN utility.

The default is blank.

DEFAULT_SESSION_LANGUAGE

Selects the language to use as the default language for ISPF. The value chosen will be the language used by ISPF if no language is specified on invocation. Valid values are:

English
Uppercase English
German
Swiss German
Japanese

The default is 1 (English).

PATHNAME_SUBSTITUTION_CHARACTER

This field defines the character which can be used to represent the full path name of a selected file. This character shows the position of the file name when it is specified as an argument in a z/OS® UNIX command, TSO command, CLIST, or REXX exec. The substitution character can be used with commands that are invoked through the z/OS UNIX Directory List utility (ISPF option 3.17).

The default character is ! (exclamation point).

NUMBER_OF_ROWS_FOR_TBADD

The number of rows to be used in calculating the amount of storage required when a TBADD service is invoked. The value can be an integer from 1 to 1000.

The default is 1.

RETRIEVE_COMMAND_STACK_SIZE

The size, in bytes, of the command stack that RETRIEVE command uses. ISPF uses the command stack to hold commands (stripped of leading and trailing blanks) and some ISPF internal information. A stack of 512 bytes holds approximately 20 commands with a length of 10 characters each. The value can be an integer from 312 to 4096.

The default is 512.

ENABLE_ISPF_EXITS

Indicates whether exit routines are available:

YES: Indicates that installation-written routines are provided or planned, and that the ISPEXITS load module is to be loaded at ISPF initialization. If you plan to use exit routines but those routines have not been written, you can code YES for this field, causing the IBM-provided defaults module, ISPEXITS, to be loaded. Later, you can replace ISPEXITS without having to repeat this part of the installation process.
NO: Indicates that exit routines are not provided or planned, and that ISPEXITS is not to be loaded, reducing startup time.

The default is NO.

ENABLE_XTIOT

Indicates whether ISPF can process data sets dynamically allocated with an XTIOT and whether ISPF itself requests an XTIOT via dynamic allocation:

YES: XTIOT capability is requested. ISPF checks whether NON_VSAM_XTIOT support has been activated before enabling XTIOT support fully. For an explanation of this keyword in the DEVSUPxx member of parmlib, see Chapter 18, "Using BSAM, BPAM, and QSAM support for XTIOT, uncaptured UCBs, and DSAB above the 16 MB line" in z/OS DFSMS Using the New Functions.
The ISRDDN utility indicates whether an allocation uses XTIOT and disables line command input if XTIOT support is disabled.
NO: XTIOT data sets cannot be processed.

The default is NO.