Developing Dialog Manager Applications in z/OS

Course Number:  627-TF
Recommended Duration:  5 days

Intended Audience
Applications and systems programmers, who need to know how to create, maintain, and support Dialog Manager applications.

Course Overview
This course is an extensive, hands-on introduction to this powerful facility and includes enhancements introduced beginning with the z/OS version of ISPF.  There are 15 standard and one optional hands-on exercises.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to build and maintain applications based on IBM's z/OS Dialog Manager (ISPF).

Prerequisites
At the very least, the student entering this course should have experience in using ISPF/PDF, especially the editor and in coding either TSO REXX execs or TSO CLISTs.

Topics

• Dialog variables and variable pools, including variables services

• System symbols

• Panel definition language and panel processing logic

• LIBDEF service

• DISPLAY service

• Message services

• Library Access services (LM...)

• Pop-up windows

• Scrollable fields

• SELECT service and menus

• Dialog Test

• CONTROL services

• Browse, Edit, and View interfaces

• Help panels and tutorial services

• ISPF tables and table services

• ISPF table display services

• ISPF Table Utility

• File tailoring services and skeletons

• Obtaining data set information

• Command tables and user-written commands

• Introduction to CUA (Common User Access) standards

• Creating and using action bars

• Introduction to Dialog Tag Language (DTL)

• Creating keylists using DTL

• Installing ISPF applications