View, Browse, Edit, edit macros, and models

The View, Browse, and Edit functions allow you to look at the contents of a dialog. While editing a dialog, you can change it by adding or deleting lines, typing over the existing source code, or copying lines from another dialog to the one being edited.

To enhance the existing Edit function, you can write edit macros. Edit macros allow you to combine several often-used functions so that you do not have to call each function separately. You can write initial edit macros that are automatically run when the Edit option is selected. Other uses for edit macros include:

Overriding Edit commands
Calling DM and PDF component dialog services
Accessing cursor position and data location.

Also, ISPF provides online models that you can insert into the dialog. A model is an example of a service call, panel format, table format, or message that contains the proper syntax and all the available parameters for the programming language being used. Since these models are online, they can be called directly into the member being edited.

See z/OS ISPF Edit and Edit Macros for more information.