Abstract for ISPF Reference Summary

Purpose of this information

This information provides a quick reference for application developers and library administrators who use various components of the ISPF product.

ISPF general information contains general information about ISPF.

Dialog development information contains information relevant to dialog developers, including panel definition statements and built-in functions, message definitions, and file-tailoring skeleton statements.

The syntax and return codes for ISPF services, Edit macro commands, and SCLM services and macros are described in these topics:

This documentation also contains tables of ISPF system variables (System variables) and dialog variables (Dialog variables) and a summary of the Dialog Tag Language (DTL) tags (Dialog Tag Language (DTL) tags).

Information in this document was extracted from the following prerequisite books:

Who should read this information

This document is for:

Application programmers who write programs or command procedures that invoke ISPF services.
Application programmers who use the ISPF editor and edit macros.
Library administrators who use library management facilities.