If you choose Option 1, Create/Modify Settings and Regenerate Keyword File on the ISPF Configuration utility main menu panel, the Create/Modify ISPF Configuration panel appears, as shown in Figure 1.

This option enables you to create a new keyword file or modify an existing keyword file containing ISPF configuration settings. Each time you use this option the keyword file is regenerated with the new or modified settings values. Note that any comments that have been added, or any reformatting changes that you might have made to the keyword file by editing it directly do not appear in the regenerated file.

                      Create/Modify ISPF Configuration          Defaults loaded

  General ISPF Settings                 System Profile (ISPSPROF) Settings
  1  Editor Settings                    6  Log and List Defaults
  2  Edit/View/Browse VSAM Settings     7  Terminal and User Defaults
  3  PDF Exits and Other PDF Settings   8  Workstation Defaults
  4  ISPF Site-wide Defaults            9  Workstation Download Defaults
  5  ISPDFLTS, CUA Colors, and Other
     DM Settings


  Output Keyword File
    Data Set . . . CONFIG.KEYWORD.FILE
    Member . . . . SYSTEM1


  Instructions:
    Enter option to change configuration settings,
    END or EXIT command to generate keyword file, or
    CANCEL command to exit without keyword file generation

  Option ===> _____________________________________________________________
   F1=Help      F2=Split     F3=Exit      F7=Backward  F8=Forward   F9=Swap
  F12=Cancel

As you choose a group of settings to modify, a panel specific to that group of settings is displayed. If you are creating a new keyword file, the panel fields are initialized with the default values for each setting. If you are modifying an existing keyword file, the panel reflects the current values in that keyword file.

Each of the selected panels has field-level help for the individual fields on the panel. To display a pop-up help panel for a field, put the cursor on the field and press the Help function key, or enter HELP on the command line.

The Output Keyword File entry fields enable you to save the generated keyword file to a data set or member other than the data set or member used as input. If you leave this field blank, the data is saved back to the input data set and member specified on the ISPF Configuration utility main menu panel (ISPPCONF).