Starting the tool integration dialog

Before you can use the tool integrator, the Workstation Agent must have been installed and configured. See Workstation connection for details on these prerequisite tasks.

You can run the tool integrator in either GUI mode or the standard ISPF mode. For information about running ISPF in GUI mode, see the topic about the ISPF user interface in the z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I.

Note: You cannot issue a WSDISCON command or service call while running the workstation tool integration dialog.

You can display the Workstation Tool Integration Configuration panel, shown in Figure 1, using any of these methods:

Select Workstation Tool Integration from the Workstation pull-down.
Select the Workstation choice on the action bars found on the Edit or View panels, then choose Workstation Tool Integration.
Type INT on any ISPF command or action line and press Enter.

Figure 1. ISPF Workstation Tool Integration panel

   Log/List  Function keys  Colors  Environ  Workstation  Identifier  Help
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   File  Map  Help                                                            │
│ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  │
│                 Workstation Tool Integration Configuration                   │
│                                                                              │
│ Press EXIT to save tool configuration to connected workstation hard drive.   │
│ Press CANCEL to temporarily update tool configuration for this session.      │
│                                                                              │
│ Action: E=Edit V=View                                                        │
│                                                                              │
│    Description  Code  Data    Mode      Command                              │
│    View         V     TEXT    MODELESS  e                                    │
│    Edit         E     TEXT    MODAL     e                                    │
│    **End**                                                                   │
│                                                                              │
│ Command ===>                                              Scroll ===> PAGE   │
│  F1=Help        F2=Split       F3=Exit        F7=Backward    F8=Forward      │
│  F9=Swap       F10=Actions    F12=Cancel                                     │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
   Screen format   2  1. Data    2. Std     3. Max     4. Part
 Command ===>
  F1=Help      F2=Split     F3=Exit      F7=Backward  F8=Forward   F9=Swap
 F10=Actions  F12=Cancel

The information contained on this panel is defined as follows:

(Line command field): Enter v (view) or e (edit) to display the Tool Configuration panel in View or Edit mode.
Description: Text explaining the ISPF action.
Code: The ISPF action code assigned to this workstation application.
Data: The format used for the object file during download and upload to the host.
Mode: The processing mode for this action.
Command: The workstation invocation command string or name.

You use this panel to begin to define how the ISPF actions interact with the workstation applications, or just to look at the actions you have already defined.