ISPF.conf, Legacy ISPF Gateway configuration file

Legacy ISPF Gateway uses the definitions in ISPF.conf to create a valid environment to execute batch TSO and ISPF commands. z/OS® Explorer uses this environment to run some MVS based services.

ISPF.conf is located in /etc/zexpl/, unless you specified a different location when you customized and submitted job FEK.SFEKSAMP(FEKSETUP). See Customization setup for more details. You can edit the file with the TSO OEDIT command.

Comment lines start with an asterisk (*). When concatenating data set names, add them on the same line and separate the names with a comma (,).

Besides providing the correct names for the ISPF data sets, you must also add the TSO Commands service data set name, FEK.SFEKPROC, to the SYSPROC or SYSEXEC statement, as shown in the following code sample.

Figure 1. ISPF.conf - ISPF configuration file

* REQUIRED:
sysproc=ISP.SISPCLIB,FEK.SFEKPROC
ispmlib=ISP.SISPMENU
isptlib=ISP.SISPTENU
ispplib=ISP.SISPPENU
ispslib=ISP.SISPSLIB
ispllib=ISP.SISPLOAD

* OPTIONAL:
*allocjob = ISP.SISPSAMP(ISPZISP2)
*ISPF_timeout = 900

Note: You can add your own DD-like statements and data set concatenations to customize the TSO environment, thus mimicking a TSO logon procedure.