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COBOL program to display ISPF Panels

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raveendra321

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Oct 10, 2006
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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.
 
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
 

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
 
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.
 
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
 
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