Implementing the ISPF Dialog Interface › Invoke the Dialog

Invoke the Dialog

Before you can use the ISPF Dialog for the first time, you need to include the ISPF components in your ISPF library concatenations. This process is site-specific so you may need to consult your site's TSO/ISPF administrator.

The following shows the ISPF data set type and data set name, and the associated CA SOLVE:FTS data set name:

CLISTs

ISPF data set name: SYSEXEC

CA SOLVE:FTS data set name: CDEMCLS0

Messages

ISPF data set name: ISPMLIB

CA SOLVE:FTS data set name: CDEMCLS0

Panels

ISPF data set name: ISPPLIB

CA SOLVE:FTS data set name: CDEMCLS0

To use the ISPF interface you must do one of the following:

• Amend your ISPF startup procedures to include the CA SOLVE:FTS data sets.
• Copy the contents of the CA SOLVE:FTS data sets into existing ISPF data sets for that data set type.

Note: The ISPF Dialog also uses the NMCMD TSO processor that was installed when CA SOLVE:FTS was installed.

The dialog is intended to run as an ISPF Dialog application. This means it has its own operational shared variable pool and its own profile data set member in which information is stored across application sessions.

The dialog application can be tested from Option 7.1 of ISPF (by invoking procedure NMFTS and specifying a NEWPOOL ID of NMFT for the call) but it should ultimately be invoked from some convenient user menu (for example, a tailored primary ISPF menu). The following dialog statement can be used to access the dialog system from such a menu:

ISPEXEC SELECT CMD(NMFTS) NEWAPPL(NMFT)

After it is invoked for the first time, the dialog application creates a member NMFTPROF in the user’s ISPF profile data set on exit.