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ravikumar_sri2001 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: ISPF help required

Hi Gurus,

My requirement is,

Read a file and display some of the fields from the read record in one line and some of the fields in the next line, in the panel. All the records have to be displayed in this way in the panel. The LENGTH of each line is "133".
So there will be two lines in the panel for every single record. There will be a OPTION field in the every first line of two lines corresponds to a record. The user should be able to scroll using funtion keys (f7- backward, f8-forward). The user can logically delete a record the by putting "D" in the OPTION field. That is there is a STATUS field in the file which has to be updated value "DELETE". The panel will also have "command line". If the user enter command "UNDO" in the command line, then all the delete records, have to undeleted. That is STATUS field has to be updated with blank. Please let me know how to implement this.

Thanks,
Ravikumar.

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

It sounds to me like you need to use an ISPF Table and a Table Display ISPF Panel with a )MODEL section defined.

You will probably need to use most of these ISPF Services:

Table Services:
TBCREATE
TBOPEN
TBSAVE
TBCLOSE
TBEND

Table Row Services:
TBADD
TBDELETE
TBTOP
TBSKIP

as well as the usual ISPF services (VDEFINE, VGET, VPUT, TBDISPL, etc.).

You can use the ISPF MODELs from an EDIT session, or the ISPF manuals:

ISPF Services Guide: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ISPZSG40/CCONTENTS?DT=20050713030339

ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ISPZDG40/CCONTENTS?DT=20050712212339

plus the appropriate language reference guides for whichever language you are developing this application in.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:48 am Post subject:

This requires complex programming and some ISPF Dialog Manager knowledge. No one here can provide this application to you!

I you don't have ISPF Dialog experience, read the ISPF Examples manuals for a look at working examples. See how they Display data on panels.
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ravikumar_sri2001 · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:49 am Post subject:

Hi Gurus,

In requirement, a detail line consits of 132 characters. How to create a panel with 132 characters ?. Is it possible to continue a detail line in order to display 132 characters.

Thanks,
Ravikumar.

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

You can have 132-character panels only if your 3270 Terminal settings allow it. Otherwise, you have to split the data to fit into two rows of an 80-character width panel.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:57 am Post subject:

ISPF panel fields need start/end attribute bytes, so the longest field would really be 130 bytes on a model 5 terminal.

You could look into panels with scrollable areas. Your pgm moves the current pointer into the data when the user enters RIGHT or LEFT command.
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