Beginnerz/OS24 min
TSO/ISPF navigation
The green screen, demystified. How to log on, read a panel, find your files, and edit them without fear.
What you will be able to do
- Read any ISPF panel and know where to type
- Find, browse and edit a dataset from 3.4
- Use the edit commands that do 90% of the work
Lessons
- TSO, ISPF and the terminalTSO is your interactive session on z/OS — a command line, essentially. ISPF is the full-screen menu system that runs on top of it, and it is where you will spend your day. The…
- Reading an ISPF panelEvery ISPF panel has the same three parts: a title, an action bar or command line where you type, and a body. Once you can see that structure, an unfamiliar panel stops being…
- Option 3.4: finding and handling datasets3.4 is where you list datasets matching a pattern and then do things to them. Nearly every task starts here: find the library, open the member, make the change.
- The ISPF editor, properlyThe ISPF editor is line-based and command-driven, which feels alien for about two hours and then feels fast. There are two places to type: the command line at the top, and the…
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