COBOL program to display ISPF Panels

[raveendra321]

Hi All,

I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum to post this question. The question is regarding displaying ISPF panels by calling ISPLINK in a COBOL program.

Currently, I am invoking the COBOL program using TSO CALL <PGM>.

But I wanted to know what are the other ways of invoking the COBOL program which can display ISPF Panels and allow user interaction.

Also I want to read a file in the COBOL program and display the contents on the ISPF panel. But using TSO CALL to invoke the COBOL program, how can we provide the DDname/DSN to the program ?

Could you please explain me with an example.

Please let me know if you need more information on the same.

Thanks,
Raveendra.

 

[rexxhead]

This is not the correct forum. Your question is strictly TSO-related.

However, the answer is: CALL is the method which TSO uses to invoke load modules; there is no other.


Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[rexxhead]

In JCL you provide the data in DD statements. The analog for that in TSO is "ALLOC".

Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[raveendra321]

Hi rexxhead,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Sorry for posting the question in this forum. I'll take care of the same going forward.

Thanks,
Raveendra.

 

[MarcLodge]

Hi raveendra321,
From your description of the problem, I believe that you need to write a rexx that will allocate the ddnames and the datasets to your TSO session, and then call the Cobol program which will interface with ISPF.

Marc