> From: shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net > if you're going to call PDF an ISPF application, should you > call it multiple applications, e.g., BROWSE/EDIT/VIEW, compare?
No, PDF is (or was) a single application. All of the functions within that application (Browse, Edit, Utilities, etc) all ran under the ISR application ID. This is similar to how SDSF is a single application that runs under the ISF application ID, and has many functions available from its menu (Input queue, Output queue, Held queue, etc). > What is the main menu? i...@prim? i...@prim? The ISPF main menu (or more properly the 'ISPF Primary Option Menu') is usually i...@prim. That's the one that has the PDF options on it, such as 1=View, 2=Edit, 3=Utilities (etc). It was called the ISPF menu even back when PDF was a separate product; i.e. back when it should have really been called the PDF menu. In contrast, i...@mstr is a proper ISPF menu (accessible by entering ISPSTART at a TSO READY prompt instead of entering ISPF or PDF). This displays the 'ISPF Master Application Menu'; i.e. a menu from which individual applications or groups of applications can be selected. I worked at a company where i...@prim used to be the 'main menu'. It had all of the PDF options on it as well as other applications (such as SDSF, SimpList, FileAid, etc). This caused 2 problems; first it was very crowded (and no-one wanted to scroll down to see all the options). Second, every now and again IBM changed their version of i...@prim (e.g. by adding additional PDF options). Of course the new PDF options didn't magically appear on our in-house customized version of the menu. To fix these problems the logon CLIST was changed to issue 'ISPSTART' instead of 'ISPF'. This meant i...@mstr was displayed instead of i...@prim. The 'ISPF Master Application Menu' is a template supplied by IBM that can be customized at each site. At our site i...@mstr was modified so that users could select option 1 to go to the raw, uncustomized version of the PDF menu (i...@prim), or select option 2 to go to the vendor applications menu (such as SDSF, SimpList, FileAid, etc) or select option 3 to go to the in-house tools menu, and so on. In this way, the PDF application was isolated from other applications, and if IBM made any changes to the PDF menu they were picked up automatically. In addition, it gave us plenty of room to add applications to the other menus instead of trying to squeeze them all onto the PDF menu. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html _________________________________________________________________ Introducing Windows® phone. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9708122 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
