Two ISPF configuration table keywords control whether action bars and highlighting are displayed in ISPF Edit. Disabling action bars provides more space to display data in the Edit panel. Disabling extended color support can improve system performance.

The keyword ALLOW_EDIT_HIGHLIGHTING can disable extended color support for all applications, including PDF itself and applications that use their own panels enabled for extended highlighting.

The DEFAULT_EDIT_DISPLAY keyword can be used to set the attributes of edit sessions invoked directly by PDF or by programs that invoke the edit service panel name other than ISREDDE2, ISREDDE3, ISREDDE4, or ISREDDE5. Using DEFAULT_EDIT_DISPLAY, you can make the edit session have:

• Neither action bars nor extended highlighting
• Extended highlighting with no action bars
• Action bars with no extended highlighting
• Both action bars and extended highlighting

DEFAULT_EDIT_DISPLAY can also be used to configure the editor to use the display method used in previous releases. This method does not support action bars or extended highlighting, but it performs much faster than the other methods. For more information, see Disable Edit extended highlighting.

If ALLOW_EDIT_HIGHLIGHTING is set to NO, the extended highlight support is disabled regardless of how DEFAULT_EDIT_DISPLAY is set.

See Edit-related settings for more information about these keywords.