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Defining ISPF and DSCL User Options

CA Disk dynamically builds its own menus of available ISPF and DSCL functions. This is done to provide a flexible way for CA Disk installation coordinators to control the use of CA Disk in their installation.

When a user enters the CA Disk option on the ISPF primary option menu, CA Disk determines the user ID of the user and goes to an authorization list stored as a member in the CA Disk parmlib data set. This authorization list indicates which users can use CA Disk and what functions of the support they are authorized to use. Based on this information, a menu is presented to the user indicating only those functions that are authorized for their use.

At this point of the ISPF customization, members SPFOPTNS and DMCOPTNS should be created in the parmlib data set by copying in members SAMPSPFO and SAMPDMCO respectively, and then reviewing and modifying as needed.

SPFOPTNS and DMCOPTNS parmlib members contain three fields of information those are coded free form on each list entry. The list contains all the needed entries as needed. The three fields are: TSO USERID, INCLUDE/EXCLUDE Specification and Function Specification.