When you use IMS,
information is interactively processed.
Procedure
To begin using the phone application in IMS:
Clear the screen and type in a FORMAT command. The FORMAT
command that starts PL/I phone application is:
/FORMAT DSN8IPNO
When
the FORMAT command is entered, the panel that is shown in the following
figure is displayed.
Figure 1. Starting the phone application
---------------------------- TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ----------------------------
LAST NAME ==>
FIRST NAME ==>
LAST NAME : * FOR LIST OF ENTIRE DIRECTORY
% FOR GENERIC LIST (EX. K% = ALL K - NAMES)
FIRST NAME(OPTIONAL): % FOR GENERIC LIST