Option selection

You can select an ISPF option three ways:

Select a choice from one of the pull-downs on the action bar. See Figure 1 for more information.
Select one of the point-and-shoot fields. See Point-and-Shoot text fields for more information.
Type an option number on the Option line and press Enter.

Many options have a secondary list of options. To bypass the second menu, type two selections, separating them with a period, on the ISPF Primary Option Menu. For example, entering 3.1 on the ISPF Primary Option Menu is the same as entering 3 on the ISPF Primary Option Menu and 1 on the Utility Selection Panel.

An even faster way to select an option is to bypass both the ISPF Primary Option Menu and the secondary menus. To do this, include your options in the ISPF (or alias) command. For example:

ISPF 2: To go directly to the Edit option.
ISPF 3.1: To go directly to the Library utility (3.1).