IMS Application Menu

The IMS Application Menu provides a common interface to IBM-supplied IMS applications that run on TSO using ISPF.

The following applications run on TSO using ISPF:

Single Point of Control (SPOC)
Manage Resources
HALDB Partition Definition utility
IMS Syntax Checker
Installation Verification Program (IVP)
IVP Export utility
IPCS with IMS Dump Formatter (IPCS)
Abend Search and Notification (ASN)

Tip: To provide access to the IMS Application Menu, include the IMS.SDFSEXEC data set in the SYSPROC DD concatenation.

Attention: Ensure that IPCS is started before the IMS Application Menu is started. Otherwise, message DFSIX103 is displayed.

Use the DFSAPPL command to start the IMS Application Menu. You can either use a TSO command or an EXEC command:

TSO %DFSAPPL HLQ(myhlq)
EXEC 'IMS.SDFSEXEC(DFSAPPL)' 'HLQ(myhlq)'

Where:

DFSAPPL: Command to start the IMS Application menu
HLQ: Keyword that enables you to specify the high-level qualifier of the IMS distribution data sets
The HLQ parameter is required the first time you use the command. If you do not specify it, the command uses the most recently specified high-level qualifier. This parameter is optional.
myhlq: High-level qualifier of the IMS distribution data sets
ALTRESL: Keyword that enables you to specify a list of data set names that contain load modules
If you specify the ALTRESL parameter, you should include SDFSRESL in the list of data set names. If you do not specify the ALTRESL parameter, myhlq.SDFSRESL is used as the ISPLLIB data set.
myhlq.data_set_ name1: Fully-qualified name of a data set that contains load modules

Note: Some applications require an ISPTABL data set. If the ISPTABL data set is allocated, it will continue to be used. If the ISPTABL data set is not in use, a new one is allocated using your TSO prefix or userid as the high-level qualifier.

The IMS Application menu is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. IMS Application Menu

Help
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IMS Application Menu
Command ===> 2____________________________________________________

Select an application and press Enter.
				
                 1  Single Point of Control (SPOC)
                 2  Manage resources
                 3  Reserved for future use
                 4  HALDB Partition Definition Utility (PDU)
                 5  Syntax checker for IMS Parameters (SC)
                 6  Installation Verification Program (IVP)
                 7  IVP Export Utility (IVPEX)
                 8  IPCS with IMS Dump Formatter (IPCS)
                 9 Abend Search and Notification (ASN)

Using the IMS Application menu, you can start any of the TSO or ISPF applications by selecting the application and pressing the Enter key.

You can also link to the IMS Application menu from your local ISPF option menu. The following panel is an example:

)BODY
             Local Option Menu
Option ===>_ZCMD

  I    IMS Application Menu
  .
  .
)PROC
&ZSEL = TRANS(TRUNC(&ZCMD,'.')
  I,'CMD(%DFSAPPL HLQ(myhlq)) NEWAPPL(DFS) NOCHECK'
  .
  .
)END

Related reading: For more information about any of the ISPF panels within the IMS Application Menu, see the ISPF online help that comes with the applications.