User profiles

ISPF stores information in your user profile. This allows ISPF to insert a value in panel input fields by using the values you last entered on either the same panel or a similar type of panel. Sometimes default values are provided if you have not specified otherwise. Information maintained in your user profile includes:

Project name, group names, and type
Job statement information ¹
SYSOUT class for printed output ¹
Defaults for list and log allocation and processing
Terminal characteristics and function key definitions
Edit profiles, including mask, tabs, and bounds
Current scroll amount for Browse, Edit, Data Set List, and member lists ¹
Processing options for each of the language processors
Data set allocation/information parameters.

ISPF maintains this information automatically from one session to another. If you are a new user, you have to enter certain information the first time. But then, you simply review the information and make whatever changes you want before proceeding.

ISPF maintains sets of job statements for:

JCL for printing the Log and List data sets
The Hardcopy utility (3.6)
The Outlist utility (3.8)
The SuperC utility (3.12)
The SuperCE utility (3.13)
The Foreground Print Options panel (option 4, excluding SCRIPT/VS)
The Batch option (5)
The SCLM option (10)
SCRIPT/VS draft output (4.9)
SCRIPT/VS final output (4.9)
Ending ISPF

Thus, you can provide different job statement parameters for each of these functions. For more information, see Job statement information.