With PDF you can customize the Foreground and Batch processing options. You can add and modify existing Foreground or Batch options, develop new primary options to provide an interface to the Foreground or Batch processing mechanisms, and modify the tutorial to reflect installation-developed modifications.

Review the z/OS ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference for a description of panel and message definition formats, and also for specific requirements for selection panels (menus) and tutorial panels. The distributed panels provide examples of ISPF selection and tutorial panels. The ISPF Primary Option Menu is named ISR@PRIM and the first tutorial panel is named ISR00000.

The PDF Foreground and Batch options use selection and data entry panels in combination with CLISTs and file skeletons (Batch only). The specific requirements for foreground and batch panels, CLISTs, and skeletons are described in these sections.