Point-and-shoot

The Point-and-Shoot panel element on the CUA Attribute Change Utility panel (shown in Figure 1) allows you to adjust the color, intensity and highlighting of point-and-shoot fields.

See the ISPF User Interface topic in the z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I for information on the point-and-shoot feature.

To display this panel, positioned on the Point-and-Shoot panel element, perform one of these actions:

Select the Point-and-Shoot... choice from the Colors pull-down.
Issue the ISPF system command PSCOLOR from any ISPF command line.

Figure 1. CUA Attribute Change Utility panel positioned on the point-and-shoot panel element (ISPOPT1X)

 ┌─────────────────────────────── ISPF Settings ───────────────────────────────┐
 │                        CUA Attribute Change Utility                         │
 │                                                                             │
 │ Change colors, intensities, or highlights for panel attribute elements.     │
 │ Enter the EXIT command to save changes or enter the CANCEL command to exit  │
 │ without saving. To restore the defaults for a type, clear the field and     │
 │ press Enter or select the Defaults point-and-shoot field to restore all     │
 │ default settings for all types.                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │ Panel Element                  Color         Intensity  Highlight           │
 │                                                                More:   -    │
 │ PD Unavailable Choices . . . . BLUE          LOW        NONE                │
 │ Reference Phrase . . . . . . . WHITE         HIGH       NONE                │
 │ Scroll Information . . . . . . WHITE         HIGH       NONE                │
 │ Sel. Available Choices . . . . WHITE         LOW        NONE                │
 │ Sel. Unavailable Choices . . . BLUE          LOW        NONE                │
 │ Variable Output Info.  . . . . TURQ          LOW        NONE                │
 │ Warning Message Text . . . . . YELLOW        HIGH       NONE                │
 │ Warning Text . . . . . . . . . RED           HIGH       NONE                │
 │ Work Area Separator Line . . . BLUE          LOW        NONE                │
 │ Command ===>                                                     Defaults   │
 │  F1=Help        F2=Split       F3=Exit        F7=Backward    F8=Forward     │
 │  F9=Swap       F12=Cancel                                                   │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

To change any of the three attributes, type over the existing values. The changes are reflected on the next panel displayed after you exit this panel. Table 1 shows valid change values:

Table 1. Valid point-and-shoot change values
Color Choices	Intensity Choices	Highlight Choices
RED	HIGH	NONE
PINK	LOW	BLINK
GREEN		REVERSE
YELLOW		USCORE
BLUE
TURQ
WHITE