Day One

Introduction to Dialog Manager

• Dialog components
• Dialog variables
• Panel definitions
• Data set requirements
• Invoking Dialog Manager services from a CLIST or Exec
• Invoking Dialog Manager services from a program
• Dialog Testing
  • Computer Exercise: Setting up for Dialog Manager

Panel Definitions

• The LIBDEF Service
• User libraries
• Defining panels
• Headers and sections in a panel definition
• Panel design
• Attribute characters
• Panel definition – the )BODY section
• The )END section
• Panel layout concerns
• DISPLAY services
  • Computer Exercise:  Defining Panels

Dialog Variables and pools

• Applications
• Variable Pools
• Function pools for execs and CLISTs
• The shared pool
• The application profile pool
• Z variables
• The system profile pool
• Variable pools relationships
• System variables
• System Symbols
• Variable services: VGET, VPUT, VERASE

Brief TSO Review
Brief REXX Review
Brief CLIST Review

Common notes

Running Dialogs from DSLIST

• Computer Exercise:  The Case Study, Backup and Restore Functions

Day Two

Panel processing and messages

• Test and Trace modes
• Snapshot – quick review
• Panel processing statements
• Panel processing built-in functions
• Control variables
• Messages
• Message format
• Message processing
• Message services
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: Display an Individual Record

Basic Library Access services

• Placeholder variables
• DATAIDs
• LMINIT
• LMOPEN
• LMGET
• LMPUT
• LMCLOSE
• LMFREE
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study, Part 2, Second Stage: File I/O

Pop-up windows

• Windows
• Primary and active windows
• ADDPOP service
• Window frames
• Defining panels with windows
• Window fit
• REMPOP service
• Interacting with pop-ups
• Messages and windows
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study, Third Stage: Window

Scrollable fields

• Design issues
• Implementing scrollable fields
• The )FIELD section
• Scrollable Fields: an example

Day Three

Menus and Debugging

• Command Processing
• Jump function processing
• Menus
• The SELECT service
• Syntax for TRANS and TRUNC in a menu
• Handling lower level requests
• Primary option menus
• Master application menus
• Menus, panels, and SELECT
• Dialog Test tracing services
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study, Add Menu Hierarchy

Some new services and tutorials

• Edit Models
• The CONTROL service
• Browse, Edit, and View services
• Browse, Edit, and View: working with z/OS UNIX files
• Edit recovery interface
• Tutorials
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: Add Tutorials and Browse Feature

ISPF Tables

• Table types
• Tables and keys
• Defining tables – TBCREATE
• Row variables
• Extension variables
• Working with tables
• Working with rows
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: Add A Table

Day Four

Table Display services

• Panels for table displays
• The )ATTR section for table display panels
• The )BODY section for table display panels
• The )MODEL section for table display panels
• The TBDISPL service
• Processing selected rows
• Table display variables
• TBSARG and TBSCAN
• Dialog Test and tables
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: Processing Selected Rows

The ISPF Table Utility

• Introduction to the Table Utility
• Table List Formats
• Editing and Browsing Tables
• Re-Structuring The Table Display
• Sorting Tables
• Exporting and Importing Tables
• Table Utility Options
  • Computer Exercise:  Using the Table Utility

File Tailoring services

• The file tailoring process
• Skeletons
• File tailoring services – FTOPEN, FTINCL, FTCLOSE, FTERASE
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: File Tailoring

More Library Access Services

• LMCOPY, LMMOVE, LMPRINT, LMRENAME, LMERASE
• Library access services to work with true libraries:
  • LMCOMP, LMMFIND, LMMREN, LMMREP, LMMADD, LMMDEL, LMMSTATS, LMMLIST, LMMDISP, MEMLIST
• Library access services to work with lists of data sets:
  • LMDINIT, LMDFREE, LMDLIST, LMDDISP
• DIRLIST – Display a z/OS UNIX Directory List

Day Five

Miscellaneous Topics

• Panel preprocessing
• Dialog Test: the DTEST command
• Obtaining data set information: QLIBDEF, QBASELIB, DSINFO
• Dialog Manager and commands
• Command tables
• Creating command tables
• Using command tables
  • Computer Exercise:  Create a User Command

Introduction to Common User Access (CUA)

• The CUA standard
• CUA panel formats
• Using Action Bars
• Working with pull-down menus
• Creating action bars using panel language
  • Computer Exercise:  Adding Action Bars

Keylists

• Keylists
• Dialog Tag Language (DTL)
• Defining keylists
• The ISPDTLC utility
• Using keylists
  • Computer Exercise:  Creating a Keylist

Final Topics

• Using Compiled Languages for Dialogs
• Tradeoffs
• Installing an ISPF Application
• Using ISPSTART
• Read-Only Profile Pool Extensions
  • Computer Exercise:  The Case Study: Table to Sequential File [and Back]