The
"ISPF Libraries and Data Sets" topic of
the
z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I contains
information about all the fields on the View Entry Panel except these:
- Initial Macro
- You
can specify an Edit macro to be processed before you begin viewing
your sequential data set or any member of a partitioned data set.
This initial macro enables you to set up a particular environment
for the View session you are beginning.
If you leave the Initial
Macro field blank and your Edit profile includes an initial macro
specification, the initial macro from your Edit profile is processed.
If
you want to suppress the processing of an initial macro in your Edit
profile, enter NONE in the Initial Macro field.
- Profile Name
- You
can specify a profile name to override the default Edit profile.
- Format Name
- Contains the name of a format definition, which is used to view
or browse a formatted data set.
- Browse Mode
- Specifies that you want to browse the data set using the Browse
function. This function is useful for large data sets and data sets
that are formatted RECFM=U.
- Confirm Cancel/Move/Replace
- Specifies that you want ISPF to display a confirmation panel whenever
you issue a Cancel, Move, or Replace command.
- Mixed Mode
- Specifies that you want to view or browse unformatted data that
contains both EBCDIC and DBCS characters.
- View on Workstation
- Specifies that you want to view the data on your workstation.
This option requires a workstation connection to be used.
- Warn on First Data Change
- Specifies that you want ISPF to warn you that changes cannot be
saved in View. The warning is displayed when the first data change
is made.
- Record Length
- Can be used when browsing a z/OS® UNIX file. The numeric value entered
in this field is used by ISPF to display the data in the file as fixed-length
records, rather than using the newline character to delimit each record.
This is useful for browsing files which would otherwise have very
large records if the newline character is used as the record delimiter.
- Data Encoding
- You can use this option to select whether to view data as ASCII
(CCSID 819) or UTF-8 (CCSID 1208). You can also specify this option
when creating a new file, data set, or member containing ASCII or
UTF-8 data. When you select a value for this option, the editor uses
the selected CCSID in converting the data to the CCSID for the terminal.
For
ASCII or UTF-8 z/OS UNIX files, the editor breaks up
data into records using the ASCII linefeed character (X'0A')
and the ASCII carriage return character (X'0D') as the record
delimiter. The linefeed and carriage return characters are removed
from the data loaded into the editor, but written back to the file
when the data is saved.
It is not necessary to use the Data
Encoding option when the z/OS UNIX file is tagged with a CCSID
of 819 or 1208. If ISPF detects the file is tagged with CCSID 819
or 1208, it converts the data from ASCII or UTF-8 to the CCSID of
the terminal. When the file is saved, ISPF ensures the file is tagged
with a CCSID of 819 or 1208.